The Pentium Era - South to North

The three people walked back from the plank road. The beach, which was deserted when they left, became more and more crowded. The small fishing boats that went out to sea for fishing came back one after another. Every boat docked would attract some people. Walk towards it.

The boss of the boat took down baskets and buckets of fish from the boat and placed them on the beach. People immediately gathered around to look at the goods and negotiate the price.

All the catches do not need to be weighed. Those who buy and sell just point to the basket or one fish and a pile, and negotiate for the price. Once the price is agreed upon, the buyer pays and takes it.

Among those who buy the catch are residents of the town, owners of restaurants, night snack stalls, and owners specializing in seafood business. They have louder voices and are more aggressive. When a boat's catch comes ashore, they bend over. He lowered his waist and plucked the basket with his hands a few times. Then he straightened up and asked how much the basket cost.

The ship boss offered a price and he was not satisfied, so he clicked his tongue, glared at the ship boss, cursed, suppressed the other party's momentum, and smoothly quoted a price.

If the boat boss agrees, the boss will wave his hand, and immediately there will be horse boys coming behind him. The boss will yell with them, "Move it, move it, move it, move these baskets away."

While shouting, he also kicked the plastic basket containing the fish with his feet, then took out a wad of money from his pocket, shook it, counted it loudly, and after counting, handed it to the boss of the boat. Stop it and the person goes away.

The boss of the ship stood there and counted the money again. Usually there was nothing wrong. If there was any mistake, he would shout at the back, "One piece is missing."

The boss didn't look back. He was eager to see the new catch. He just said, "Wait a minute or I'll give it to you tomorrow." The boss of the boat didn't care.

Or both parties pick up their phones and transfer money via WeChat to complete the transaction.

Among the people buying goods, there are also tourists. Zhang Xiangbei and the others heard a few Shanghainese "booking in" on the beach. Shanghainese are really everywhere, "booking in" everywhere they go.

Several baskets of fish from one boat were bought and sold on the beach in just a few minutes. When the boss of the boat pulled up the net, he selected these fish and put them in different baskets or barrels. There would be several more baskets on the boat. The groceries, after these were sold, were carried off the ship.

Lamps were lit one by one on the beach, and a piece of plastic sheet was spread under the lamp. Several women gathered around. The groceries were moved here and poured onto the plastic sheet with a "swish". After a few baskets, they were immediately It formed a hill.

These groceries are basically small fish and shrimps. These women sort out these groceries. The small fish are used to dry fish, and the small shrimps are used to dry or peel shrimps. Occasionally, they are also fished from the sea. All kinds of garbage coming up.

Bao Tianbin and Xiang Nan Xiangbei said that these women have their own families and people who specialize in buying groceries here. The prices of groceries are very cheap, but after sorting and sorting them, and then selling them, the profit is actually very high. Some fish and shrimp will later go to the vegetable market, or the canteen of restaurants and work units.

These women were very quick with their hands and feet. In just ten or twenty minutes, they sorted out several baskets of groceries from a boat, put away the plastic sheets, and left carrying plastic baskets and buckets.

Zhang Xiangbei and the others saw a few crabs and a starfish left on the beach. Zhang Xiangbei reminded them:

"There's something that hasn't been taken away."

The woman looked back and said, "No more."

"You don't want any of these?"

"No more."

After the woman finished speaking, she left. The three of them squatted down. The crabs were not too small and they had never seen them before. Bao Tianbin pulled them with his hands and said, these crabs are not delicious. Yes, no one wants it, just the shell and no meat.

Xiang Nan picked up the starfish, held it in his hand and looked at it. He exclaimed, "Oh!" and threw it on the beach. Xiang Nan pointed at the starfish and said:

"It's alive, it's still alive."

"Of course it's still alive, the starfish is still very tenacious," Bao Tianbin said, "But don't be afraid, it won't bite."

Xiangnan picked up the starfish again. She looked towards the sea, stood up and walked over. Zhang Xiangbei called:

"What are you doing?"

Xiang Nan said without looking back, "I'll put it back into the sea."

Zhang Xiangbei and Bao Tianbin also followed them and walked south to the beach. When they waited for the sea water to recede, they ran forward two steps and placed starfish on the beach. They retreated again, and the sea water came up, flooding them. After passing the starfish, when we went back, the starfish on the beach disappeared.

Xiang Nan asked: "Do you think it can find its own home?"

"Okay, if you can't find it, it will call Didi." Zhang Xiangbei said.

"Go!" Xiang Nan cursed.

Bao Tianbin's phone rang, and he picked it up. After answering, he and Zhang Xiangbeixiangnan said, "Let's go, our dinner is here."

The call just now came from a ship boss whom Bao Tianbin knew, saying that he was also back.

They searched along the beach and soon found the boat. The fish on the boat had just been moved to the beach. Several people gathered around it. Some people bent down to turn over the fish in the basket. The boss of the boat shouted:

"Wait, wait, don't move, wait for my brother to pick first."

When he saw Bao Tianbin and the others, he quickly waved to them and told them to hurry up. There are good things today.

Bao Tianbin picked up a plastic basket and saw five lobsters. This was the good thing the boss of the boat said. Bao Tianbin didn't pick the biggest or the smallest, but the two in the middle, and then asked I ordered two fish, one steamed and one ready to be steamed with the local lentil sauce. I also picked five safflower crabs and a two-foot-long conger eel.

"That's all?" the ship boss asked.

Bao Tianbin nodded: "Three people, that's enough."

The boss of the ship leaned close to Bao Tianbin's ear and whispered to him, "You pay two hundred and eighty."

Bao Tianbin said yes, can I forward it to you on WeChat?

The ship boss nodded. Bao Tianbin picked up his cell phone and transferred four hundred to him. The ship boss looked at it and said it was too much and refused to accept it. Bao Tianbin shouted:

"Take it, take it, I don't know yet!"

The ship boss then clicked accept and accepted the money.

Bao Tianbin took the plastic basket and said goodbye to the boat boss. The three of them went to the beach and passed through the garden. On this street near the seaside, there were four or five restaurants, all engaged in the processing of supplied materials.

Bao Tianbin led Zhang Xiangbei and Xiangnan into a familiar shop. The seafood processing here is charged by the kilogram regardless of the variety, and the method is based on the customer's requirements.

The boss weighed this basket of seafood. Two lobsters, one sashimi, one steamed with garlic, safflower crab stir-fried with ginger and green onion, conger eel in soup. For the two fish, the boss helped give an idea which one should be steamed. , which lentil sauce is more delicious when steamed.

There was also seafood in the store, and Bao Tianbin ordered another pound of shrimp, salt and pepper.

The hotel is a two-story hotel with private rooms upstairs. The three of us went upstairs and sat down in the private rooms. The private rooms faced the beach. Sitting here, we could see the busy scene on the beach, and we could also see the endless traffic. There are fishing boats with lights on, returning from the sea.

The waiter brought a large plate of fried fish. Zhang Xiangbei said, "It seems we didn't order this fish."

"You don't need to order this. It's the signature dish here in Yinggehai. Fried tilapia is served to every customer at the table." Bao Tianbin told them.

Each piece of tilapia on this plate was a little bigger than a thumb, and looked brown and crispy on the surface. Zhang Xiangbei and Xiangnan each took one and put it in their mouths. After one bite, they felt crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. Thick and firm, full of fish flavor.

"It's delicious, it's delicious." Zhang Xiangbei nodded and said.

Tilapia is a species introduced from Africa. It looks a lot like crucian carp, but it doesn’t have as many spines as crucian carp. Bao Tianbin told them that the tilapia here is a brackish water tilapia that grows at the entrance of rivers. Haikou can survive in both fresh water and sea water. This kind of saltwater tilapia is more delicious than freshwater tilapia. It has no earthy smell and the fish meat is more tender.

The dishes were served one after another, and each dish was delicious. Zhang Xiangbei said that the main reason was that the ingredients were so fresh that they tasted delicious no matter how they were cooked.

"Yes, that's how people in Hainan cook side stoves." Bao Tianbin said, "A pot of clear water is not like the hot pot in other places. The bottom of the pot is painstakingly cooked, and the ingredients don't need to be marinated. It just goes like this. What you eat is authentic seafood.”

Zhang Xiangbei nodded and said that in other places, including on the seaside of the mainland, the delicious food of Hainan cannot be produced by making side stoves.

"The same goes for the place we go to tomorrow. Hainanese people don't prepare the public dishes in advance. Although hundreds of people eat together, the chickens and ducks are all killed on the same day, and the suckling pigs are also killed and roasted on the same day. As for the villages on the seaside, notifications will be sent out today, and tomorrow morning, there will be many boats passing by to deliver various seafood.

"So, we don't know what these boats can catch tonight. We don't know what we will eat tomorrow. We won't know until it is delivered tomorrow morning." Bao Tianbin told them.

"How can this be done in time?" Zhang Xiangbei asked.

"We had enough time. All the women in the village were helping, and the kitchens of dozens of households were busy. It went very quickly," Bao Tianbin said.

The three of them had eaten and drank enough. It was almost ten o'clock, and the beach outside began to become deserted. Most of the fishing boats had returned, the fish had been sold, the groceries had been sorted, and all the lights had been lit. Went out.

The three of us ate too much and our stomachs were very full. We decided to go for a walk on the beach and then return to Sanya. When we went back, we took the Ring Island Expressway, which was very fast.

The beach, which was very lively just now, has now returned to tranquility, but there is an extra fishy smell in the air. In many places where groceries are being cleaned, there are unnecessary things left on the beach. Turn on the flashlight of your mobile phone to the south and shine it. She found two more starfish and four or five small conches. She picked them up and put them back into the sea.

When they returned to the Sanya World Tropical Botanical Garden, it was already midnight. Zhang Xiangbei asked Bao Tianbin to stay in the hotel here. Bao Tianbin said no, I will go back to where I live, which is not far away. Tomorrow morning I'll pick you up at seven o'clock.

"By the way, sleep a little longer. You will be very tired tomorrow. There is no need to get up for breakfast. When I come over, I will bring you pickled powder and tea eggs. You can eat them in the car." Bao Tianbin told them.