In 1983, a small island started from a large farmer

Chapter 424 Lilac Fish (-in-)

After traveling for half an hour, the fishing boat arrived near Dinghai Bay.

Looking from a distance, you can vaguely see a not very long beach.

On the right side of the beach, there is a small town called Xiaocheng, and if you go further to the right, you will find the famous pirate village.

Li Duoyu was not too close to Dinghai Bay, but about three or four nautical miles away.

Although the sea is vast, it does have territory. If you get too close to other people's fishing operations, you will be disliked by the local fishermen.

However, this is normal.

Just like if other fishing villages come to fish near Dandan Island, they will also be disliked by local fishermen.

In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, it is better to keep a proper distance.

Lilac fish is distributed throughout their province. As Li Duoyu knows, there are several small fisheries in the province that have this kind of clove fish.

Li Duoyu is not very clear about the waters near Ludao Island, but there are also many cloves in Dongshan Island where the uncle and third uncle are currently located.

This kind of fish is relatively cheap. In its previous life, it was popular as a snack for a long time.

My uncle studied there nearby, and when he saw this fish, he immediately recognized it as a petrel fish.

In addition, Dinghai Bay seemed to have applied for some kind of national geographical indication product for clove fish in the previous life.

It can be said that it is exactly the same as the petrel fish that Xiao Zui said. The only difference is that the petrel fish is silvery white after drying.

Chen Dongqing, who works at the Fisheries Research Institute, frowned and said: "This kind of fish, if you are right, it should be a petrel fish."

Several athletes jumped directly to the deck, and Li Duoyu picked one up and observed it.

The Niushan Fishing Ground in Haidao County next door also has a large number of cloves, but it is a bit far away. It takes more than an hour to get there by boat.

In the traditional sense, sea anchovy refers to clove fish, but petrel and sea anchovy have almost the same pronunciation. When they are called, they are completely confused.

Li Duoyu threw the dragnet tied to the moso bamboo into the sea, and then opened the oil valve of the sampan boat to the maximum.

To be honest, as an old fisherman, Li Duoyu was really troubled by the classification and names of these small fish in the sea.

This fish is not small, about five centimeters long. The top and bottom of the fish's body are slightly transparent, and there is a half-silver, half-gold scale in the middle.

"Yes, it's a petrel fish."

The method of fishing for cloves is very simple and requires no skills at all. You only need to put the dragnet into the sea and just drag it along as long as you ensure it will not sink.

Most of the small dried fish that cost one or two yuan a pack in grocery stores are made of this kind of fish.

In short, Li Duoyu has become numb to the name of sea fish. Sometimes it is called another name in a village.

In addition, there is another special reason, that is, there are much less miscellaneous fish here than at the fishing spots he mentioned.

It seems that on Dongshan Island, clove fish are called "Rao Zai".

Li Duoyu frowned slightly. Unexpectedly, he encountered a golden thread fish just as he started fishing.

Moreover, the clove fish they produce here is obviously more expensive than other places, so there must be something "fishy" about it.

Li Duoyu remembered that Jiaodong seems to be the main producing area of ​​petrel fish. Because the tail fin is deeply forked, just like the tail of a swallow, it is also called petrel fish.

There is one at Xijia Reef on Dandan Island, which is where Li Duoyu fishes for bass, but that place is a wind outlet and the sampan boat shakes violently, so it is not suitable for using a large iron pot.

Li Duoyu echoed that, in fact, strictly speaking, this fish is not exactly a petrel fish. Local fishermen call this fish a golden thread fish.

Many fishermen even confuse petrel fish with sea anchovy.

In his previous life, Li Duoyu and Old Tang had fished for cloves together, but they had never come to Ding Bay to fish.

Chen Wenchao also picked one up and asked curiously: "What kind of fish is this?"

After this kind of golden thread fish is dried, the lower body of the fish is yellow, so it is called golden thread fish.

Often when caught in one net, most of them are cloves, so there is little need to select them.

Among all the fishing grounds, Dinghai Bay is said to be the best. The sea breeze is not that strong and it is suitable for using large iron pots.

"This one"

"No, I don't catch this kind of fish."

Directly "strength can produce miracles".

Chen Wenchao asked: "Brother Yu, is this the fish you want to catch?"

Clove fish eat plankton, and they live almost entirely on the surface of the water and will not swim too deep.

Not even the most experienced fishermen can explain these small fry in the sea clearly.

Some experienced fishermen can identify where clove fish gather through the seabirds they prey on and some accumulated experience.

As the sampan boat moved forward, occasionally some small fish were frightened and jumped out of the sea.

But in this era, cloves have not yet been developed, and the quantity is very large. Catching this kind of fish does not require much skill.

As for other fishing spots, it's hard to say. Maybe there will be all kinds of mess in one net.

Li Duoyu shook his head:

In coastal areas, there are many small fish similar to petrel fish. There is also a baby fish on Dongshan Island, which is very similar to petrel fish. In addition, the white sail fish in Maoming is also called petrel fish.

I thought there would be less trash fish here, but I didn’t expect to catch golden thread fish at the beginning. In other words, even if there are few trash fish here, it probably won’t be much less.

Lilac fish are small fish, not much better than plankton, and they are the type that are preyed on in large quantities.

The size of the golden thread fish is several times larger than that. Maybe these golden thread fish appear here to prey on the clove fish.

As one of the main producing areas of cloves, the number of Dinghai Bay is definitely not small, so it is inevitable that predators will be attracted.

The sea is a place where the law of the jungle is vividly demonstrated. There are very few "vegetarian" marine creatures, and 99.9% of fish are carnivorous.

It is often a biological chain where big fish eat small fish, small fish eat shrimps, shrimps eat plankton, and plankton eat various algae.

Sure enough, the fishing boat encountered a ball of black balls not far forward.

And this black ball is the little fish's defensive posture after being frightened.

In his previous life, Li Duoyu was also very bored. When watching those short videos, he thought that Xiaoyu would shrink into a ball every time he encountered a crisis. Isn't it stupid?

Later, I once played sandbags with my grandson.

He can still catch one or two, but if four or five are thrown at the same time, he often can't even catch one.

Because there are too many targets, attention is distracted, so you don't know which sandbag to pick.

This is also the principle when fish groups gather together. When they gather together, they can indeed effectively prevent being defeated individually, but predators are not fools.

It often destroys their defensive formations, thereby separating one or two fish, and then defeats them one by one.

After seeing the little black ball, Li Duoyu quickly asked Chen Wenchao to light the firewood and start setting up a pot to boil water.

Li Duoyu drove the sampan and rushed directly towards the little black ball.

Then, he shot back again.

After several repetitions, Li Duoyu could clearly feel that the speed of the boat had slowed down, and the bag of the net was clearly bulging.

Li Duoyu stopped the fishing boat and began to manually pull the net to the left side of the sampan boat.

Chen Wenchao, who was boiling water, saw that the net bag was very big, so he quickly came over to help, and together they pulled the net bag onto the boat.

Upon seeing this, my uncle Chen Dongqing wanted to help, but as soon as he took two steps forward, three people, plus a net bag full of small fish, were all pressed against the left side of the sampan boat.

The hull of the ship tilted instantly.

Li Duoyu, who was pulling in the net, almost fell into the sea. He shouted immediately: "Don't come over. If you come over again, the boat will capsize."

After Chen Dongqing sat back down, he also had a look of shock on his face. He had just clearly felt that the boat had completely tilted to one side and was almost about to capsize.

Li Duoyu, who was also shocked, couldn't help but said: "You who wear glasses, can you have some self-awareness? You don't have much strength, just sit on the other side and weigh the weight. You don't need to help pull the net. "

The corners of Chen Dongqing's mouth twitched, feeling offended.

There are a lot of miscellaneous fish in this net. In addition to cloves, there are also some sardines, as well as young mullet and ballang fish. It is quite troublesome to pick them.

Li Duoyu said: "We only want this kind of fish and not the other small fish. You guys can help divide the fish. I will organize the pull-down net and continue to catch the next net."

When he started to divide the fish, Chen Wenchao was in trouble, because in this whole pot, he couldn't even pick out the easy-to-recognize miscellaneous fish.

But there were still many fish that looked very similar. Chen Wenchao grabbed two transparent fish, one large and one small, and asked:

"Chief Chen, are these two fish the same kind? Why do they look so similar, but why are their body shapes so different?"

Chen Dongqing frowned and thought for a while, then shook his head and said:

"The big one should be the little whitebait, and the smaller one is the little clove. If you look carefully, there is a line in the middle of the clove fish, but there is no line in the middle of the small whitebait. And the small whitebait is generally larger."

"That's right." Chen Wenchao suddenly realized it, grabbed a completely transparent fish and said, "Then this one without black lines is whitebait."

Chen Dongqing nodded: "Yes, the one with the black line on its abdomen is the clove fish."

"Then I understand."

When Chen Wenchao asked just now, Li Duoyu wanted to teach Chen Wenchao, but he didn't expect that his uncle actually knew how to distinguish.

But he is a fisherman, so it is normal for him to understand this, although he seemed to have mentioned the wrong kind of fish just now.

It took about half an hour for Chen Wenchao and his uncle to sort out all the trash fish. Chen Dongqing, who usually did less work, hammered his waist.

"Separating the fish is more tiring than catching it. The fish is like glass. I feel like my eyes are going blind."

Now the entire wooden basin is filled with densely packed clove fish, which look like transparent sweet potato powder.

It has been more than an hour since the fish was put into the net. It feels like if it is not dealt with immediately, it will soon turn into porridge.

Just at this time, the water in the big iron pot was boiling, and the lid made a "pop-pop" sound.

Li Duoyu poured a whole basin of fish into the boiling soup.

Clove fish is very fragile and breaks easily when cooked. Cooking requires techniques. Old Tang had taught him before, and the emphasis was on "three floats and two sinks".

Just like raw scalded beef, it is a principle to "sit up and down".

Li Duoyu held a large scorpion in his hand, and relied on the rotation of the slat to float the cloves from the bottom of the pot through the current.

While pounding the water, Li Duoyu said to Chen Wenchao: "Next time you cook the clove fish by yourself, don't use too much force and do it like me, otherwise the fish will fall apart easily."

"I understand, Brother Yu."

"Also, when you put it in the pot, you must drain the water. You cannot pour it directly into the bamboo board. You must shake it to separate the cooked clove fish. Otherwise, it will be mushy and it will not be sold. The price is up.”

Chen Dongqing on the side frowned: "Duoyu, have you ever caught this fish? Otherwise, how could you know the details so clearly and be so skillful in your techniques?"

Li Duoyu, who had already been asked about his numbness, replied casually: "I learned it from the local fishermen on Ludao Island. This fish is called homesick fish there, and overseas Chinese like to eat it."

Chen Dongqing frowned, and his intuition told him that there was something really wrong with this nephew, and he knew too many things.

But what he said is really correct. This fish is indeed called homesick fish on Ludao Island, and the production of this fish there is not small at all. It is really possible to learn from the fishermen there.

After pulling a few nets, Li Duoyu discovered why the cloves in Ding Bay were so good. There were some miscellaneous fish, but not too many.

And he tried a few bites of the cooked clove fish. It tasted really good, relatively fresh and sweet, and not that fishy. It may have something to do with their local sea area.

But Li Duoyu only pulled six nets, and his small sampan boat was already "full".

After sorting.

So far, the three of them have caught more than 300 kilograms of fresh clove fish.

The full load of this boat can reach one ton, but because in addition to three people on the sampan, there is also a large iron pot for boiling water and more than ten bamboo plaques filled with cooked clove fish.

There is almost no place left for people to stand, and the sampans and boats can return to Dandan Island.

When he went back, his uncle Chen Dongqing remembered something very important: "Duoyu, what is the price for this fish? Why do you call it a fortune fish?"

Li Duoyu thought about it.

Considering that Factory Director Liu was forced into a hurry, the price he gave was so outrageous, but it was for the long-term and healthy development of this industry.

Li Duoyu felt that he needed to adjust the price a little.

"This clove fish. If it's fresh, it's about fifty cents per pound. If it's dried, it's about two and a half yuan."

After hearing the price, Chen Dongqing, who was smoking, opened his mouth unconsciously, and the cigarette almost fell into the sea.

“Damn it, is this fish so expensive?”

"Who is collecting this fish?"

Chen Wenchao was also shocked, how could the fish that everyone looked down on in the past suddenly become so valuable?

Li Duoyu grinned and said, "This is a business secret. I can't tell you. If you want to know, give me a thousand yuan."

Chen Dongqing looked at Li Duoyu and saw his thief expression: "It must be more than this price. You kid must have made a lot of difference from it."

"How is it possible? You can't find a village director like me who serves the people wholeheartedly even with a lantern, and you don't even think about how much this kind of fish cost before."

Chen Wenchao nodded wildly: "I think Brother Yu is right. Not many people wanted this kind of fish in the past. The price has become cheaper. I often feed it directly to chickens and ducks."

Chen Dongqing rubbed his waist again: "Oh, it's really hard to divide the fish. My waist is almost sore. You have to count my share of the money I made today."

"Then I have to give you one-seventh of the income."

Chen Dongqing widened his eyes and said:

"Ah, why is it only one-seventh? There are only three of us on the boat, isn't it one-third?"

Li Duoyu calculated carefully:

"The three of us will divide it equally, so we will deduct three shares. Then, the boat is mine, and one share will be deducted. I also paid for the fuel, and another share will be deducted. The fishing location and sales channels are all mine, and they are yours." Isn't it just one-seventh of the total?"

Chen Dongqing's eyes grew wider and wider as he looked at the nephew in front of him in disbelief. He really wished he could go back to ten years ago.

When the time comes, he will be the first to report this nephew, and he will act like a swindler and opportunist.

Seeing his uncle gnashing his teeth, Li Duoyu said hey, "Just kidding, I'll give you one-fifth of my income."

"No, at least one quarter."

Li Duoyu changed the subject: "I'm not that stingy. It's not a problem to give you three points. It's just the shrimp fry. You have to hurry up."

At this moment, Chen Dongqing really wanted to curse, and wanted to kick his nephew into the sea.

This is so realistic that a hundred minds are going around and around, but they are actually here for that shrimp fry.

Chen Dongqing couldn't help but scolded: "How come you are not likeable at all? You must be more honest and respect your elders. After all, I am still your uncle."

Li Duoyu looked disgusted:

"As long as my wife likes me, it's fine. As long as the boss likes me too, I don't care whether you like me or not."

Chen Dongqing was speechless on the spot.

Realizing that she couldn't quarrel with him at all, she picked up her cuffs on the spot.

"Your uncle, if you have the guts, come and challenge me directly."

"Childish." Li Duoyu rolled his eyes at him and said to Chen Wenchao: "Xiaochao, my uncle smells a bit. Throw him into the sea and wash him off."

"Brother Yu, isn't this bad?" Chen Wenchao scratched his head.

"What's wrong? We always played like this when we were kids." Li Duoyu said with a smile, "Don't forget, I'm not only the village director, but also your boss."

Chen Wenchao struggled for a while, his eyes suddenly became firm, and he said with a silly smile: "Chief Chen, I'm sorry."

Chen Dongqing panicked instantly.

"Xiaochao, Duoyu and I were joking. We were obviously bickering. You don't really want to throw me away, do you?"

"It's okay. I'm very good at water. You'll be fine. I'll save you right away."

"Fuck."

"wrong."

"Duoyu, you can't be serious, I've already fallen into the sea once today."

Li Duoyu looked disgusted: "You insisted on challenging me to a duel."

"Then you can't ask Xiao Chao to help."

"I'm the boss, okay? How can the boss end up personally?"

"Grass~evil capitalism."

What Li Duoyu didn't expect was that Chen Wenchao actually hugged his uncle and jumped into the sea together.

The uncle, who was soaked all over again, grabbed the edge of the boat with his hands and looked at Li Duoyu angrily: "Fuck you, get off here too, or I won't get on."

"Okay, then I'll go down too."

Li Duoyu smiled, then took off all his clothes, then dove into the sea and swam happily.

At this moment, Chen Dongqing caught Li Duoyu's clothes and soaked them in the sea water.

"Holly, you are so vengeful."

"Your clothes are too dirty. Let me wash them for you."

After the three of them played in the sea for a while, Chen Wenchao looked at the fins not far away and suddenly changed his color and said: "There is a shark."

(End of this chapter)