Golden Fishing Village

The boats around came over one after another. Ao Muyang dragged the oarfish out of the water. The tourists were shocked and opened their eyes and mouths, exclaiming.

Du Tanzhi was also surprised and said, "Fuck, Lao Ao, you are so awesome?"

Ao Muyang climbed onto the boat and fixed the fish head on the side of the boat.

While fixing the fish head, he said, "What sea python, sea monster, sea dragon king, this is a fish, oarfish!"

"Is it edible?" someone asked immediately.

Someone else angrily said, "Eat, eat, eat, you only know how to eat."

Ao Muyang thought for a while and said, "This fish seems to be edible, and the fish tastes good."

The fishing boat dragged the huge oarfish back to the dock. The tourists made a messy noise from the sea, which attracted people playing on the beach. Soon, three or four hundred people gathered on the dock, including many villagers:

The villagers of Longtou Village had never seen an oarfish.

The huge oarfish was dragged onto the dock. Ao Muyang, Sandeng, Ao Qianpan, Ao Mupeng and Ao Mudong worked together to lift it up.

It was not that the fish was so heavy that it needed five men to lift it. It was mainly because it had too many scars on its body. Ao Muyang wanted to keep it as intact as possible. If he dragged it by himself, it would break the fish meat.

Li Ji and Su Penghui came after hearing the news. The two old men ran very fast: "Oarfish? Oarfish appeared in Hongyang?"

For most domestic fishery experts, this thing is still a rarity.

The huge oarfish was dragged to the dock and laid out in a straight line. Tourists surrounded it in three layers inside and outside like watching a star.

Even the dogs in the village came to watch the fun and squeezed in the crowd.

Some people couldn't squeeze in, but were still keen to watch the excitement. He didn't know what was going on inside, and he was anxious and shouted: "Make way, make way, that's my relative inside, let me in!"

The crowd laughed: "There's a dog giving birth to a cat inside, which one is your relative?"

The man smiled awkwardly, his face was gloomy, and he covered his face and ran away: "I scolded the neighbor, what's so good about a dog giving birth?"

"Stupid, there's a sea monster inside!"

Someone else shouted: "Make way, make way, the one inside is my student, let me in and take a look..."

"Stupid people are there every year, this year's harvest is great, there's a fish inside..." Some tourists cursed angrily.

Li Ji said angrily: "I'm talking about people, Ao Muyang inside is my student, I'm doing marine research, let me in and take a look at this oarfish."

Ao Muyang signaled Ao Mudong to maintain order. The pier is so big, and after more than 300 people squeezed in, there was no place to stand. If someone else squeezed in, someone would fall into the sea.

Li Ji and Su Penghui finally squeezed in. When they saw the oarfish, they were both a little shocked.

Tourists took out their phones and cameras to take pictures. Some people even stuck their phones in with selfie sticks and shouted, "Please move aside, my fans, let me see the oarfish. How about this fish? Is it cool? If you like it, give it to Brother Sun!"

The scene was in chaos, and Ao Muyang had to lead people to carry the fish to the beach.

After looking at it, Li Ji said, "Six meters and eighty, no problem, the body length of this fish is six meters and eighty!"

Su Penghui was a little worried and said, "Old Li, the nickname of this fish is earthquake fish. In 2011, fishermen in Taiwan caught one in the waters near Sanxiantai. As a result, a 5.2 earthquake occurred there within two days. This red ocean..."

Li Ji winked at him, "Don't say that, it's easy to cause a commotion."

But Ao Muyang heard it and asked, "Professor, can this fish really feel earthquakes?"

Li Ji shook his head, "It's impossible. Taiwan calls this fish earthquake fish, but there are earthquakes every day in Taiwan. It's just a coincidence. Besides, if this fish is so magical, they would have been caught by various countries and raised in various places to monitor earthquakes."

Ao Wenchang went to the village to get a ruler. After measuring it, he found that the body length of the fish was six meters and eighty-four. Li Ji's vision was very powerful and he was almost right.

Such a big fish is naturally very heavy. After carefully curling it up and putting it into the basket, it was weighed and the weight of the fish was 71 kilograms, nearly 150 kilograms!

Although the oarfish has not appeared in Hongyang in recent years, the locals have seen this fish many times in history and named it White Dragon King or Dragon King Fish.

So, the news that Longtou Village caught a White Dragon King spread to the surrounding villages. Villagers from various villages heard the news and came to see the rare sight. Even the old enemy Wangjia Village came, led by Yang Shuyong.

When they arrived at Longtou Village, Yang Shuyong asked: "Old Ao, what do you do with this fish? Here, give it to you."

Looking at the bag he handed over, Ao Muyang smiled and said: "Oh, you brought a gift this time? Let me see what it is, pepper, star anise, cooking wine, onion, ginger and garlic, what are you going to do with this?"

"To cook fish." Yang Shuyong almost drooled.

Ao Muyang threw the bag to him and said unhappily: "Don't even think about it!"

This fish must be eaten in the end, but not now.

He asked people to bring ice cubes from the cold storage to pad the fish, and then used an ice machine to make ice and snow to cover the fish, chilled the fish, and then waited for the media to come.

Hongyang had not found any video reports of the oarfish, and the local media was definitely interested in this fish.

His guess was correct. On that day, various media came one after another, and major hotels also came to discuss the purchase of oarfish.

Ao Muyang didn't lack this little money. This fish could be sold for at most 10,000 or 20,000 yuan. It would be better to keep it in the village as a gimmick. He had already planned that the fish meat would be eaten by villagers and tourists, and the fish head and fish skeleton would be preserved as specimens, and then put in the village for exhibition. After all, it would be a tourist project.

The oarfish was kept on the beach for a day and a night. No media came the next day, so he decided to eat it.

He had to eat it. The weather got hot in June. Although he sent people to deliver ice cubes continuously, he couldn't hold on for too long.

How to cook such a big fish, he was in a dilemma for a while.

Because he wanted to make it into a specimen, it would be best to cook it whole, but this was impossible.

When it comes to eating, people are always full of creativity.

Su Penghui told him: "You cut the fish in half, steam it if it should be steamed, and braise it if it should be cut into pieces. When you make specimens in the future, you can fix the fish bones with steel nails, no problem."

Ao Muyang thought it made sense, he cut off the fish head first, then removed the fish's internal organs, and cut the fish body into six sections, about one meter each.

The villagers came to help enthusiastically, and the tourists were also very enthusiastic when they heard that they could taste the fish, and they crowded in the small square in front of the village committee to ask if they needed help.

Looking at the villagers and tourists who were actively preparing to eat fish, Ao Muyang said helplessly: "Professor Su, do you think there is a way to eat blue algae? If you tell everyone that blue algae can beautify the skin, nourish yin and strengthen yang, I guess the green tide crisis in Ambergris Lake can be quickly resolved."