Rebirth of Fishing Village: Starting from Hua Axiang in Jiehu Village

Chapter 1238: Are we going to put the cage again?
"Ok!"

“It’s indeed a bit too much.”

Shi Guangming scratched the back of his head. It must be said that this was really too much.

"Old man Shi."

"This is your village. Are there always so many speedboats or fishing boats fishing at the pier?"

While asking, Zhao Shi walked to where the speedboats were parked on the fish farm. Ding Xiaoxiang and Yang Qin's speedboat approached and tied the toll rope.

"The usual one?"

“I’m really not quite sure about this matter!”

Shi Guangming was stunned for a moment. He really didn't know much about what Zhao Shi asked.

"Ding Xiaoxiang."

"Yang Qin."

"Why are you two here so early? Aren't we two old guys supposed to be watching over this fish farm? Just go do what you need to do!"

Zhao Shi waited for Ding Xiaoxiang and Yang Qin to get on the fish raft. They must be watching the speedboats around here, but there was no need for that. He and Shi Guangming could just watch here. There was nothing else to do today except to identify the people on the speedboats. They wondered whether they were from Shijiao Village, the surrounding villages, or even farther away.

"We do have other things to do today, but they won't be until later, so Yang Qin and I might as well come here to take a look."

"Second Grandpa."

"What did you just say to Grandpa Shi?"

Ding Xiaoxiang and Yang Qin got on the fishing raft. She just heard half of what Zhao Shi and Shi Guangming said. She didn't hear the rest and didn't know what they said, but she knew it must be related to the speedboats around them.

"Just now I asked Old Man Shi if he knew if there were usually so many fishing boats or speedboats fishing around the pier. They were just usually scattered around the sea, and now we have built a fish farm here and are surrounding them."

Zhao Shi pointed at the speedboats and small fishing boats around him, and in just a moment two more came over from the distance.

"How could Grandpa Shi pay attention to something like this?"

"Even if I did see it, I wouldn't remember it, or I certainly wouldn't pay much attention to how many people were fishing in the surrounding sea."

Ding Xiaoxiang shook her head.

Even though Shi Guangming is from Shijiao Village, he comes to the pier every day and has been staying in such a place for the past few decades.

However, Shi Guangming was not doing the surrounding fishing business, but taking people on deep-sea fishing.

They look like colleagues, but they are not really colleagues, so it is impossible for them to pay special attention to such things.

"Hey!"

"I'm really not clear about this matter. I really don't know."

"I have the impression that there are people fishing around here, but I really can't remember how many there are, so I can't be sure."

Shi Guangming frowned and thought carefully for a long time, but still couldn't figure out how many speedboats or fishing boats there were usually fishing on the surrounding sea.

What Ding Xiaoxiang said was actually very true. She had really never paid special attention to this matter. These speedboats or fishing boats had nothing to do with her at this time.

I saw it, but I just saw it and didn't really pay attention to it.

"I'll ask someone about this later. If there have always been so many speedboats or fishing boats around, it's possible that these people just saw the fish farm and gathered around."

"Or you can find someone who is familiar with fishing in the area and ask him what the situation is like."

Zhao Shi immediately came up with an idea.

"Correct!"

"I hadn't thought of such a simple thing a long time ago. My brain is really getting more and more confused as I get older!"

"Old man Zhao."

"I think we should just do this. I will go back to the village right now and ask someone about this matter."

Shi Guangming couldn't help it any longer. He wanted to go back and ask someone to find out what happened. He didn't pay attention to this matter usually, but there were many people who knew about it. As long as he found someone who was about his age and had fished in the sea near the pier before, he would know what was going on.

Zhao Shi nodded.

Shi Guangming turned around and got on the speedboat and drove towards the dock.

"How come we didn't think of such a simple thing?"

"The most important thing now is to figure out whether these people around are strangers or just fish around here on a regular basis."

Zhao Shi was very annoyed when he saw Shi Guangming driving away in the speedboat.

"Second Grandpa."

"There's really something wrong with the brains of all of us regarding this matter."

"It wasn't complicated at all, but we made it more and more complicated."

"But it's really not surprising. Who says there are so many and so valuable fish in the fish rack?"

"We were all worried that something might go wrong. The loss was just too great."

Ding Xiaoxiang knew very well why these people had not thought of many details when dealing with this matter. The bottom line was that there were too many fish at the fish farm and they were too valuable. Although no one talked about this, in fact, everyone was thinking about this matter in their hearts. They were all thinking that there must not be even the slightest mistake at the fish farm. They thought too much in their minds, and as a result, all kinds of mistakes occurred. They did not think things through clearly.

"Correct!"

"That's actually the case. It's not complicated at all, but there's no solution."

"Who told Zhao Dahai to catch so many fish, and these fish are so valuable? We can't really not care at all, right?"

Yang Qin kept shaking her head as she spoke.

This is not the first day that speedboats have appeared here. They have been there for a long time, but no one cares about it and thinks it is a very normal thing.

Zhao Dahai caught more and more fish, and the number of fish placed on the fish racks increased, and they were worth more and more money.

The mentality of all people has changed.

"Who can really not care at all? We can only pay as much attention as possible!"

Ding Xiaoxiang looked at a fish cage at her feet. The water was very clear and she could vaguely see groups of sea bass weighing more than ten or twenty pounds in the water, which was five or six meters deep.

Without saying anything else, the sea bass in this cage alone are worth a lot.

"Xiaoxiang."

"Yang Qin."

"Have you two had breakfast?"

As soon as Zhong Cuihua walked out of the room, she saw Ding Xiaoxiang and Yang Qin and waved to them immediately.

Ding Xiaoxiang and Yang Qin walked over.

"grandmother!"

"If you come here, you must eat here!"

Ding Xiaoxiang and Yang Qin got up early and rushed here without having breakfast.

"This is my home!" "I will definitely have breakfast here when I come here!"

"What do you want to eat?"

Zhong Cuihua smiled and nodded.

"Eat whatever you have!"

"This place with fish fillet must be the place for seafood porridge!"

Yang Qin wanted to speak in front of Ding Xiaoxiang.

"Last night, we caught a lot of shrimp in the cage, a white eel, and a few large orchid crabs."

"Why not just cook it!"

Huang Jintao came out and heard Yang Qin say that she wanted to eat seafood porridge. She pointed to a net bag hanging on the platform between the two fish racks.

Yang Qin quickly walked over and picked up the bag, and saw that it contained a large white eel, shrimps and orchid crabs.

"what?"

"This white eel is really big!"

"Three or even four kilograms can't be lost!"

Yang Qin really didn't expect there was such a big white eel.

"But it's more than that. This one must weigh at least six kilograms, which is very rare, especially at our dock. It's really not easy to catch one like this. The water here is deep, so you can only find such things. Usually these things are on the seabed. I don't know why they got into the cage."

Ding Xiaoxiang walked over and took a look. It was really big.

"Is there any need to explain this? It must have been chasing those small fish, but I didn't expect it to run into the cage."

"Don't blame us for being rude. We must eat it for breakfast today!"

"You don't need to put anything else in it, just use it to cook porridge."

"Correct!"

"We need to put a few orchid crabs in there, so that the taste will be very fresh."

Yang Qin was not polite at all. She called the people in the kitchen over and gave them some instructions.

"I say you really know how to eat. If the taste of this pot is not good, it would be a miracle!"

Ding Xiaoxiang smiled and nodded.

A large white eel weighing about six pounds is quite delicious when used to cook porridge. If you add some orchid crabs, the taste will be really amazing.

The method is very simple. Fry the large white eel in oil and then add rice to cook the porridge. Add the white eel when it is almost cooked. Cut the orchid crab in half and add a little ginger. It is absolutely delicious.

"Do I have to be polite to you?"

"We are busy all day long. Now that we have made some money, we should eat more and drink more to be better to ourselves, right?"

Yang Qin was really not polite at all.

"Correct!"

"What Yang Qin said is absolutely correct. We have plenty of money now, so we must eat and drink better."

"Besides, we caught these white eels, orchid crabs, and other fish ourselves. We can eat as much as we want."

Zhong Cuihua smiled and nodded. If she was poor, there would be nothing she could do. But now that she was rich, she had to eat and drink well.

Ding Xiaoxiang, Yang Qin, Zhong Cuihua and Huang Jintao chatted with each other, and in less than twenty minutes, the cooked seafood porridge was served.

Ding Xiaoxiang and Yang Qin called Ding Ailian and Ma Baozhu, and also called the other people working on the fish rack to come over for breakfast.

There was porridge in the big pot, and everyone took a bowl and filled it up to eat. Some stood, some sat, and there was no need to be particular.

Yang Qin quickly finished a bowl of porridge and immediately filled another bowl. She carefully picked up a piece of white eel and took a bite. It was very tender and she finished the whole piece in a blink of an eye.

"good to eat!"

“This is really delicious!”

"grandmother!"

"Second Grandma!"

"You must try it. This big white eel is really fat."

Ding Xiaoxiang took a bite and nodded involuntarily. She immediately took a spoon and scooped out a piece for Zhong Cuihua, Huang Jintao and Zhao Shi.

The white eel used to cook porridge is very big and has a lot of meat. The key is that this white eel is really fat and oily. If you collect this thing, it will not be delicious.

"The seawater at Shijiao Village Pier is very deep. The key is that the water never recedes all year round, so there is always water, which is why such large white eels can grow."

Zhao Shi took a bite and nodded continuously. It was really delicious.

"correct!"

"Second Grandpa."

"Don't white eels usually gather together?"

"If we can catch one, we can probably catch others, right?"

Ding Xiaoxiang suddenly remembered this incident.

The white eels seemed to be in groups. If there was one in one place, there might be other ones or even more nearby. However, I was not sure about this and had to ask an old fisherman like Zhao Shi to find out what was going on.

"Correct!"

"Generally speaking, it's like this. In fact, whether it's a white eel or other eels or even a lot of fish, shrimps and crabs, they're all like this. If you find one in one place, there's likely to be a group or even many of them."

Zhao Shi was stunned for a moment, not quite understanding why Ding Xiaoxiang asked this question.

"Ding Xiaoxiang."

"What on earth is this for? Even if there is a group of white eels in a place where there is one? They won't just go into the cage."

Yang Qin was also confused and didn't know why Ding Xiaoxiang would say such a thing.

"White eels are not fools, so how could they obediently get into the cage? This one is probably just like what you said, maybe it was extremely hungry or had a problem with its brain, so it followed those small fish into our cage and is now in our stomach."

Ding Xiaoxiang smiled and pointed under the fish fillet.

"The sea water here is so deep, and if it doesn't dry up all year round, I estimate that there are still a lot of white eels in the sea, and they are all big ones."

"It's impossible for it to run into our cage for nothing. After all, we are at the edge of the fish paddock, a million miles away from the bottom of the sea!"

"But I was thinking, can we put a few deep-water cages at the fish farm? Maybe we can catch some!"

"The fish farm is right here. We have people here all day. It doesn't take much effort or money to put up a few cages. But if we can catch a few white eels, that would at least give us a meal."

Ding Xiaoxiang expressed her thoughts.

If there is one item here, there will be many items. Then you definitely cannot miss it. You must try to see if it exists. If it does, that’s a good thing. If not, it really won’t be a waste of effort or money.

(End of this chapter)