In 1983, a small island started from a large farmer

Ever since using the small fluorescent sticks brought by Li Duoyu, the efficiency of catching squids on the hook has been extremely high.

Giant squids were dragged onto the deck, spraying ink everywhere.

In a short while, the deck was covered with sticky ink, and the crew members were all dyed "black".

The old uncle, who was a little tired and smoking nearby, wiped the ink off his face with his hand and said with a smile:

"Next time we go out to sea, we have to ask Duoyu to come with us. Every time he's around, it feels like we can catch endless fish."

Chen Liang grinned and said, "That's right. Whenever Brother Yu is here, we can catch endless seafood."

The uncle sighed and said, "What are you thinking? I heard from someone that if Duoyu hadn't refused to pay his taxes, with his current status, he would never have gone out to sea with us."

"Hahaha."

After hearing this, everyone couldn't help but burst into laughter: "Men are at their most aggressive when they first get married. They don't feel tired even if they do it every day."

"Duoyu, this is a bit unacceptable. After all, you have to wait until you are over 30 before you can start to become an experienced person."

One crew member said: "How can I put it otherwise? God is fair. His brain is too powerful, but other parts are not."

"After hearing what you said, I suddenly don't feel so jealous of Duoyu. Damn it, after this trip, I'm going to fight that guy of mine for three hundred rounds."

"Just keep blowing your own trumpet, but don't go back and yell about surrendering as soon as you take off your pants."

The soundproofing of the fishing boat was not very good. The kitchen where Li Duoyu was was separated from them by only a wooden board, so he heard every word.

Li Duoyu was too lazy to explain to them. How could it be that he was not capable? For him now, even three times a night was no problem.

It’s just that Teacher Zhou’s period this month was delayed for two weeks, and Li Duoyu felt that she might have been pregnant, so during this period of time, he didn’t dare to bother Teacher Zhou at all.

One by one, Pacific squids (a type of squid) were pulled out from the inky black sea and illuminated by the light.

It's really beautiful with bright colors flashing on its body, but it spits out a lot of ink, with one squid emitting half a tube of ink.

If you are not careful, your whole body will be covered in black. Fortunately, nowadays everyone’s fishing equipment is quite good, and they are all wearing waders and rubber boots.

Uncle Li Niantian was really surprised when he saw the deck full of squids. He has been fishing for most of his life.

At the best time, I caught tens of thousands of kilograms of yellow croaker in one net, but I didn’t expect that in the end, it still felt like I didn’t catch as many fish as I did.

He held the small fluorescent stick in his hand and didn't expect that just by adding this thing, the fishing rate would become so high.

This kid really knows everything, and he is still tinkering in the kitchen, saying that he is making something called squid shreds.

For squids this big, they usually dry the whole thing into jerky after catching it, and the price is quite high.

Even in their coastal fishing villages, a squid this big would sell for 70 or 80 cents after being dried. If it were sold inland, it could even be sold for as high as three or four yuan. As for the train station, the price is the worst, and they dare to sell it for ten yuan.

If we can catch so many squids every day, we will definitely make a lot of money. If we fill the entire fish tank, it will definitely not be a problem to make eight or nine thousand yuan this time.

Taking advantage of the squid season, Li Niantian plans to make more money, and the third brother Li Zhengfa plans to build a new boat.

He also planned to give it a try. When he made a lot of money, he would build a ship that was bigger than his own. Then he would see if he dared to talk nonsense with his brother.

Seeing that everyone was slowing down, Li Niantian shouted through the loud speaker:
"Hurry up, don't be lazy, hurry up, let's try to get three rounds tonight."

"We are driving a tricycle, can't you let us take a rest and sleep?" After Li Sande said this, all the crew members looked at him in surprise.

rest?

go to bed?

Are you kidding me?
Chen Liang, who was in charge of leading him, turned pale when he saw that this fellow dared to talk back to the captain of the ship. He cursed him on the spot:
"Salin, why are you still standing there like an idiot? Hurry up and clean the squids and put them in the basket. Don't take a rest. Haven't you gotten enough sleep in the past three days?"

Seeing that he was about to talk back, Chen Liang kicked him directly and said, "Hurry up and get to work. Why are you talking so much nonsense?"

At this moment, a crew member shouted: "Fuck, why are all the squids flying up."

Everyone looked towards the sea, and sure enough, under the dim light, they could see a large number of squids shooting out from the sea.

From its tentacles, you can see it spraying out a long column of water. The moment it flies up, it really looks like a flying fish.

There are so many of them at the moment, and they are flying in a regular pattern, giving the feeling that something is preying on them.

Li Duoyu, who heard the noise, also came out of the kitchen. After seeing this scene, he quickly said, "Hurry up and reel in the line, or we'll be finished."

Sure enough, the following hook arrangement was not so smooth. More than half of the squids collected were bitten.

This kind of hook specially used for catching squids cannot normally catch big fish. Only a few greedy ones will directly swallow the whole squid hook.

After being fished out by the crew, it was discovered that its entire body was like a small cannonball. Chen Liang was still thinking about catching it, but its tail swung over and almost knocked him down.

Fortunately, he was wearing waders, otherwise his calf would have been injured.

After seeing the fish that was like a cannonball, Li Duoyu picked up a stick on the spot, went up and hit it on the head with two "bang bang" blows, which directly made it stiff.

Li Duoyu really didn't expect to catch this kind of fish here, but it was too small, weighing less than thirty kilograms.

This thing can only be said to be a baby in the bluefin tuna family.

Li Duoyu looked at the sea surface and if he guessed correctly, it should be a school of tuna catching this Pacific squid.

It’s a pity that tuna is not their target fish today, otherwise they could have just switched to fishing for tuna.

Li Duoyu has some knowledge about bluefin tuna, but this kind of fish is not distributed at all near the Chinese coast.

Tuna are migratory and rarely stay in one place for too long. However, this fish will swim towards the island country along the "Kuroshio Current" during certain seasons.

Among them, there is a population of tuna that will actually pass through the sea area where Li Duoyu is now, and then pass through the Tsushima Strait, which is where Li Duoyu caught the giant bluefin tuna in the island country three years ago.

After seeing this tuna, Li Duoyu was still a little excited. He wanted to add a snack to everyone's meal so that everyone could try the sashimi.

But after thinking about it, I decided to give up. This thing is at the top of the food chain and has quite a lot of parasites.

Although Japanese people love to eat raw fish fillets, they are also afraid of death. Under normal circumstances, tuna is processed by low-temperature freezing.

Through freezing technology, the parasites in the body are frozen to death before being served on the table.

Therefore, islanders rarely get infected with Anisakis from eating raw tuna, but it is hard to say about other fish.

After the red snapper knocked out the tuna.

With the kitchen knife in hand, he chopped off its tail fin in two or three strokes, and then severed the aorta in the fish head.

Instantly, blood gushed out of the tuna's body. The crew saw Li Duoyu killing the fish smoothly and asked curiously:

"Duoyu, do you know this kind of fish?"

Li Duoyu was stunned for a moment: "You don't know it, this fish is tuna."

"I don't know. Triggerfish, we do know this fish. It feels a little different."

Chen Liang was surprised and asked, "Brother Yu, is it the tuna that you exchanged for your boat?"

Li Duoyu nodded.

Chen Liang's eyes widened and he swallowed his saliva: "Then this kind of fish is very valuable, right?"

Li Duoyu smiled and said, "It's OK. This one is too small. If you sell it to Xinyuan Aquatic Products, it can be sold for about 50 yuan. If you can get one weighing more than 500 kilograms, it will be really valuable." "It's just this little money."

Chen Liang, who was almost thrown down by the tail fin just now, opened his mouth and said, "You are so small but so strong. If it weighs 500 kilograms, one tail fin can probably slap me to death."

Li Duoyu smiled. The last time he fished for that big bluefin tuna, he fished from day to night and almost got himself killed.

If he were given another chance now, Li Duoyu might not be able to catch that big fish again.

Due to the disturbance caused by the tuna school, many of the squids that were pulled up later had half of their bodies bitten off.

Uncle Li Niantian was cursing and there were actually explosives and detonators in his cab. He was so angry that he wanted to blow up the fish.

Li Duoyu drained the blood of the tunas and then threw them into the cold storage in the fish hold.

If we can catch a lot of fish this time, we can sell them to Chen Yuansu.

To be honest, this thing is not very delicious. Even if it is processed well, it still has a sour and fishy smell.

To put it bluntly, the value of some things lies more in the story behind the fish.

As long as the story is well told, its value cannot be low.

Li Duoyu, who has been a chef in the island country for many years, knows very well that those who eat tuna belly and the like are not eating the fish itself. More often, it is a symbol of economic strength and status.

It’s the same with the yellow croaker in China. The taste difference between wild and farmed ones is really not that big.

Some of the ones that are not preserved well are not even as delicious as the farmed ones, but the prices are very different.

But most of the time, what we eat is not the taste, but the quality.

Li Duoyu took a kitchen knife and neatly cut off the squid's head and body on the chopping board. The squid was originally very colorful.

After being cut, he instantly turned pale and his upper body stopped moving.

There are so many types of squid that Li Duoyu is too lazy to distinguish them clearly, but he often comes into contact with this kind of squid.

Its scientific name is Pacific squid. In island countries, this squid is often used as sashimi.

In addition, because it can jump out of the water, people generally call it "flying squid".

This is considered a type of squid with relatively good quality. It is a relatively easy and simple dish to make sashimi with this type of squid.

But when Li Duoyu was working illegally, what he feared most was that customers would order the dish of freshly grilled squid shreds.

Because this dish takes a long time to make, it is quite troublesome. Sometimes, it takes half an hour to bake it.

Grilled squid shreds usually use the squid's body (carcass), which is the part above the big eyes.

Its head is right next to its big eyeballs, and the area above it is all body.

What Li Duoyu wants is the body of the squid; he doesn't care about the head and tentacles.

Some time ago, Li Duoyu also used small squids from the near coast to make grilled squid shreds for the girls from the distribution company.

After all, girls are more greedy. Although their responses were very good, Li Duoyu felt that it was still somewhat lacking.

The squids from the coast near Fujian Province taste good when used to make dried squid stew, but if used to make grilled squid shreds, the taste is too fishy.

This kind of flying squid is not that fishy, ​​so people should be more accepting of it if it is made into squid shreds.

After Li Duoyu cut it off with a knife, he pushed the head and tentacles aside and then started to deal with the body of the squid.

Li Duoyu took a large iron plate, placed it on the honeycomb coal stove, spread out the squid body, and then kept brushing it with oil and seasonings.

To put it simply, it is teppanyaki, and what he is doing now is to fry and grill the squid repeatedly to cook it and at the same time force the moisture out of the squid.

While grilling, Li Duoyu also used a spatula to clean off the red skin on the squid's surface.

This thing is the source of the fishy smell of squid. If it is not cleaned up, the grilled squid shreds will taste a bit fishy.

Uncle Zhuang, the cook, was watching curiously. It was the first time he had seen someone cook like this, so he couldn't help but ask, "Duoyu, what are you cooking?"

"Don't worry, when I'm done, you'll know what it is."

When the squid slices were almost cooked, Li Duoyu took out a rolling pin and started beating them.

Beat the grilled squid slices until soft, then tear them into long thin strips.

At this time, Li Duoyu's forehead was already covered with sweat. This last step could be completely replaced by a machine.

But there is no machine on the market that is specifically for pressing squid shreds. Next, if Li Duoyu really wants to produce squid shreds, he really has to contact his eldest brother's machinery factory.

Ask their factory employees to help design and produce several machines specifically for pressing squid shreds.

Li Duoyu was the first to try the grilled squid shreds. Just as he expected, the grilled squid shreds made with this kind of squid tasted great, very fragrant and tasty.

These freshly grilled squid shreds and the squid shreds in packaged bags sold in grocery stores in my previous life seem like two completely different foods.

Fresh squid shreds taste very good. Not only are they chewy, but most importantly, they are particularly fragrant and fresh.

Unfortunately, the shelf life of this kind of dried squid that has not been dehydrated is not particularly long. It is very easy to mold and rot, so it must be kept fresh and quick-frozen.

In this day and age, if you really want to sell shredded squid to ordinary people, it will eventually have to be dehydrated.

After all, not every family has a refrigerator. If you want to wait until refrigerators become popular, it would have to be after the millennium.

After Li Duoyu finished grilling the squid strips, he smiled and said, "Uncle Zhuang, come and try it and see how it tastes."

When Uncle Zhuang saw that the dried squid was made of shredded squid, he quickly waved his hands and said, "I'm old, and I don't have many teeth left. I can't chew this kind of dried squid."

"Try it, this one isn't as hard as dried squid."

Unable to refuse the kind offer, Uncle Zhuang took the squid shreds and started eating them, with a very expressive look on his face.

"Yes, it tastes very good. It's much better than our dried squid."

Li Duoyu grabbed another handful of squid shreds and gave them to Uncle Zhuang: "Give me some more."

Uncle Zhuang quickly shook his head: "No, my teeth are not in good condition now. They are too stuck. I'd better eat something simple."

When Uncle Zhuang laughed, Li Duoyu looked at his teeth and couldn't help frowning.

Uncle Zhuang is not very old, about the same age as his father, but he has been smoking for many years and has no habit of protecting his oral cavity.

My teeth are black, yellow, and almost rotten. Not long ago, I was in so much pain from tooth decay that half of my face was swollen.

In fact, it's not just Uncle Zhuang. There are many elderly people on Dandan Island whose names begin with six, and few of them have nice looking teeth.

Nowadays, we finally have a good life and can eat fish and meat to our heart's content, but many people's teeth are damaged.

In addition to dental problems, some elderly people in the village also developed cataracts. Li Duoyu felt that by then, companies like his would most likely be asked to donate.

Instead of handing it over to a certain organization, Li Duoyu felt that it would be better to directly provide some benefits to the elderly in the village.

There are so many sufferings around me, how can I have the energy to look far away? (End of this chapter)