Chapter 20 Chapter Eighteen: Strange Stories on the Coast of the Yellow Sea

The benevolent enjoys the mountains, and the wise enjoys the water. He also said: relying on mountains to eat mountains, relying on water to drink water.Living near the mountains or living on the mountains, and living near the water or living on the water have their own advantages. It is impossible to decide which is better, and you have to make your own decision according to your disposition and interest. Due to the construction of sea dams on the coast of the Yellow Sea, nature and the sea are in contact from time to time.On the coast of the Yellow Sea, within the range of fifty or sixty miles, there is no beach at all. It's really strange. Why there is no beach is still unknown.

However, even though there is no beach, playing in the water is equally fun, and the seashore is extremely rich in aquatic products. The most amazing thing is that starting from a place (I forgot the name), row a small boat for three or four miles, right on the sea, There is a fountain less than one meter above the sea surface, the water is very thick, the water of the fountain emerges from the sea surface, the sea water is so salty and bitter, but the water from this fountain is extremely sweet.There is no record of such a strange event, it is really a big place in the world, and there are no surprises.When fishing boats pass by this spring, they always like to replenish fresh water, which is inexhaustible. I don’t know how many years it has been. Now, after more than 30 years, that clear spring should still emerge from the sea, showing the nature miracle.

Most of the fishing boats use Chenjiagang as the distribution center. Chenjiagang is just a very dilapidated small town. It is said that during the period of warlord melee in the early Republic of China, it was abnormally prosperous for a while, but there are no traces to follow.However, the fishing boats moored in Chenjiagang are very grand. One day, when a new boat was launched, and firecrackers were set off, a big rooster was beheaded, and the blood dripped on the bow. This may be the custom of local fishermen. He is very knowledgeable and novel by nature, he has been to Chenjiagang many times, and after getting to know the local cadres quite well, they arranged for him to board a fishing boat and go fishing with him. That experience was extremely interesting, the fishing boat The original task was to catch yellow croakers, which is the flood season for yellow croakers in autumn.

Because fishermen have been living in the moody sea for a long time, there is no guarantee for their lives, so there are many taboos. When they get on the boat, they are warned not to hang their feet in the air. After eating, chopsticks cannot be placed on the bowl. , must not use the sound of transliteration, eat fish, eat one side, take away the middle bone, and then eat the other side, instead of turning the fish body over; bowls, plates, basins and other utensils, if you see them turned over, it would be almost impossible. Immediately be thrown into the sea! Although there are many kinds of taboos, just keep one thing in mind: there must be no words or actions that imply danger involving ships.

After boarding the boat and going out to sea, I chatted with the fishermen and listened to them talk about the situation when a large number of fish appeared in the sea. The fish did not see the sea, and the sound of the fish rubbing against each other was like thunder, louder than the sound of the tide. He also said that at that time, the fishing boats avoided far away until the large group of fish passed by, and they cast and dropped their nets at the tail of the fish. You can already get a lot of money, if you are greedy, you will be dragged away if you cast the net in a large group of fish, and even bring the boat with the net.

This statement, of course, cannot be fully believed.As soon as the boat sailed, the fishermen got busy immediately, pouring baskets of salt into the cabin. Once the fish were caught, they would be poured into the cabin, so that the fish would mix with the salt when they jumped.There is always a question in my heart: In this way, don’t all the fish become salted fish?So, where does fresh fish come from?Perhaps it is only the fishermen in this area who work in this way. Since there is no chance to contact other fishermen, the question has not been resolved. There are four ships in this fleet. The original mission was to catch yellow croakers, but on the night when the ships sailed, a strange sight suddenly appeared on the vast sea. Under the moonlight, as far as the eye could see, the sea suddenly turned silvery white, and , not a still silvery white, but a flipping silvery white, and the fishermen on the boat shouted together.

I don't know what happened that night, I thought some disaster happened, on the deck, when I didn't know what to do, I saw a fisherman stabbing the sea surface with a penny, stirring up a big silver-white mass, It turned out to be a very big jellyfish. Looking at the silvery white stretching for at least several kilometers on the sea surface, it turned out that it was all caused by an unknown number of jellyfish piled one by one!Those jellyfish are as small as a washbasin and as big as a big round table, which is really a wonder among wonders. I am an outsider, and I just appreciate the spectacle, but other people on the fishing boat are already busy, shouting, and lowering their nets one after another. For yellow croakers, just catch jellyfish.

Nets of jellyfish were poured into the cabin. There was not enough manpower, and they also participated in the work of dumping salt. One layer of jellyfish and one layer of salt were kept busy until dawn, as if someone gave an order. It sank into the water, and there was no one on the sea. After the jellyfish are marinated, they become delicious and highly nutritious jellyfish skins and jellyfish heads. Now the market price is quite high, but in those days, these things were very cheap and worthless, so although the four fishing boats returned overloaded, but after the event It is said that the team leader who ordered to catch jellyfish was criticized many times in the fishermen's mass meeting because he did not catch yellow croaker but caught jellyfish.

A few days after the jellyfish was discovered, I was sleeping in the middle of the night and was woken up by someone. There was a loud noise on the sea. Immediately, several people rushed to the seaside. It was about three to five miles away. A wide stream of silver-white water, local villagers also came to watch the excitement, saying that it was a school of hairtail fish, it was really strange, as if countless things were squeezing, and it seemed that the school of fish was like a river in the sea!Only now did I know that what the fishermen said may be exaggerated, but they are not exaggerated much. The coast is really a beautiful and mysterious area!