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So on that day, except for the "old saury" who no one poured alcohol, and the two youngest and half-grown children of "Little Baizi" and "Sea Dog", the rest of the "sea bumpers" all drank too much. As a result, no one succeeded, and the group spent the night at the house of the "old knifefish".

Drinking is actually the same as diving, and it is almost a matter of physical fitness. So don't look at the "general" and "Hong Yanwu" and "Chen Liquan" are all the primary targets of the irrigation, but Hong Yanwu was the first to lie down, and the general followed.

Fortunately, Chen Liquan finally persevered to the end, and gloriously "died together" with a few drunken boys, and he didn't let them fall well after all.

That night, "Sanjiazi" and "Ba Yu" were so drunk that they couldn't even stay in bed, and when they woke up the next morning, they found that they had both rolled to the ground.

The "flying crab" even hugged a paulownia tree in the courtyard and refused to let go, and climbed up the tree like a monkey while vomiting, saying that he was a fairy and wanted to go to heaven to meet Chang'e.

Even the strongest self-control "shrimp crawler" is finished, he woke up in the middle of the night to go home, but he crawled around the yard for an hour and did not find the courtyard door, and finally was found by the "little Baizi" who came out to pee in the middle of the night, woke up the "sea dog", and the two of them together put him back into the house.

In short, when they woke up the next morning, almost everyone woke up with a hangover and a terrible headache.

However, despite being unwell, the "old saury" couple also warmly retained, but because everyone missed their mothers and homesick, they still went their separate ways after breakfast.

Before leaving, Hong Yanwu did not forget to pay a "salary" to the "sea cucumbers" living in a nearby fishing village as their upfront expenses for collecting sea cucumbers.

This made those boys very happy, and patted their chests and promised to collect more good ginseng and bring them with them.

And Hong Yanwu, Chen Liquan and "Little Baizi", together with the three people who live in the city, "General", "Sanjiazi" and "Shrimp Crawler", shared the 600 catties of abalone shells, and took the fruits of the labor of the "old saury" last time "touched the sea", and embarked on the road back to Bincheng.

As for the "old saury", because he had to stay and continue to take care of the dried sea cucumbers, he did not follow him into the city this time.

Needless to say, Hong Yanwu's main task this time is naturally to sell these abalone shells and the stock of sea cucumbers in the hands of the "generals" in exchange for the start-up capital for speculating and selling sea cucumbers.

And when it comes to the value of abalone, I have to say a few more words.

There is almost no abalone that people in modern society don't know. Everyone knows that this thing is not a fish, but actually shellfish, a sea treasure that can be compared to shark fin.

But people now don't know that the reason why abalone is so famous and famous is mainly because after the founding of the People's Republic of China, it had been in the limelight with a major historical event, which is the reason why he can obtain such a status today.

That was in 1972, when US President Richard Nixon visited China. This is the first time since the Cold War that China and the United States have opened the ice of super diplomacy. Our prime minister personally assigned the task assigned to the State Council, which was to require abalone from the Liaodong Peninsula to be used in state banquets for foreign guests. Because the sea at 39 degrees north latitude is neither cold nor hot, it is the most suitable for the growth of abalone.

After the mission reached Zhangzi Island in the Yellow Sea, the local people felt proud and proud, although the abalone hibernates deep in the reef in winter, and it is difficult to find footprints, but the young diver Wang Tianyong mustered up the courage to dive into the sea water of the skull to find and catch high-quality abalone in the severe cold of more than minus 20 degrees.

Every time he surfaced, his wetsuit was frozen into a layer of glassy bright armor, and when he struck it with a stick, it clicked down the ice ballast. In this way, he fought for many days, dived more than 100 times, and finally caught more than 1,000 kilograms of high-quality abalone, which was quickly sent to the capital.

After the publication of the Sino-American Joint Communique, the Prime Minister called the "heroes behind the scenes" of the workers who fought for this major diplomatic success. To this day, Wang Tianyong's photo is still hanging on the hero spectrum of Zhangzi Island. At the same time, the people of the whole country also know about this kind of thing in the sea.

Later, as the economic tide took off, people had money in their pockets, and the first thing the hungry and scared Chinese people did was to spend the money on food to make up for the long-term debt. And once the big fish and meat are greasy, it is logical that the craze of "raw seafood" will surge.

Businessmen who can make a lot of money simply strike while the iron is hot, vigorously advocate hype, and preach that abalone that has been at state banquets has great nutrition. It is said that abalone is rich in globulin, and its nutritional value is seven or eight times that of walnuts. There is also a miraculous "abucone" in the flesh of abalone, which is able to destroy the production of cancer cells.

They also said that abalone has the effect of nourishing yin and replenishing yang, calming the liver, strengthening the kidneys, regulating adrenaline secretion, and having a two-way effect on regulating blood pressure. If you eat ginseng due to yin deficiency, it will cause dryness and even nosebleeds, while abalone is used in combination with yin and yang, tonifying but not dry, and there are no side effects.

As a result, the value of abalone continued to rise, and it didn't take long for it to become a big dish at various banquets. What is steamed abalone, braised abalone, braised abalone in sauce, Longjing abalone, Yipin abalone, abalone skirt...... In short, as long as there is a dish with "abalone" in the name, the person who treats or is invited will feel a kind of high-end taste.

However, the heyday of abalone was, after all, after the reform and opening up, before the 80s, although it had the honor of serving as the main dish of the state banquet, but in reality, its real status has been far from this official definition of "high".

First, the price has not been liberalized, it belongs to a completely planned economy, and without commercial interests, no one will take the initiative to tap its value. The locals of Bencheng are also known as "stick noodles and pants", and the common people are reluctant to eat "luxury", so although the abalone meat is only sold for two cents a catty, it is completely unmarketable in the aquatic product store, and basically no one cares.

Second, the circulation of materials at that time was too poor, and the post-processing could not keep up, so that this kind of thing has been limited to local consumption, and it is difficult to find its traces in coastal cities, and it is difficult to obtain permanent and continuous value recognition across the country.

Third, fishery production has also been stagnant because of the "movement". Therefore, at that time, in any bay along the coast of the Liaodong Peninsula, as long as you hold your breath and plunge into the water half a person deep, you can find some abalone, which is not as rare and precious as it was a hundred times as later.

Therefore, almost everyone in this era can easily eat abalone, and in the eyes of the local people, abalone is not even as precious as a conch. The "sea bumpers" can take out the abalone meat at will, put it on the fire and roast it to make a soup, and then chew it indiscriminately and swallow it in a sparse manner, which is completely simple to use for the stomach, without any cherishing meaning.

To say that the people of Bencheng have a recognized perception of abalone, there is no gorgeous adjective, and the highest evaluation is "abalone does not stuff teeth".

But they don't know that this is already the most unpretentious and extreme praise. Because any high-grade fish and meat have to be stuffed with your teeth when you eat it, but abalone meat, which is both elastic and bite, does not stuff your teeth, which is absolutely wonderful.

Therefore, in fact, it is Hong Yanwu who has the greatest benefit. While lamenting in his heart that the "sea bumpers" were spoiling good things, he was eating abalone with all his might.

Since arriving at the "Cloud Cliff", every meal he has at the beach has always been short of roasting dozens of abalones to share with Chen Liquan and "Little Baizi". He also picks the big ones, at least more than "six abalones", so that everyone knows that he has a soft spot for abalone.

Especially the "flying crabs", seeing that they have food and roast bird meat and don't eat them, they call them stupid and joke that they have never seen the world in Beijing.

But Hong Yanwu didn't care about this, the benefits had already fallen into their own stomachs. Ben Thanh's "Purple Wrinkle Abalone" is the best in the abalone family, and is famous for its delicate, delicious and nutritious meat. What kind of meal is he eating abalone and drinking a little wine, not something that costs thousands of yuan? It is better to be a fool than to miss this gluttonous opportunity.

But then again, since abalone meat is so worthless in this era, why is it a seafood that the "sea bumpers" have worked so hard to catch?

In fact, in 1977, the real value of abalone was its shimmering shell.

At this time, our country is exporting shell shell carving handicrafts in exchange for foreign exchange, and urgently needs a large number of raw materials. At the same time, abalone shell is also a famous medicinal material "stone cassia", because it has the effect of bright purpose, there is a nickname called "Senecio", so the acquisition point of the aquatic company specially opened a high price of one pound of abalone shell.

That's an attractive price. Like a good hand who "touches the sea", he can eat more than 20 catties of abalone in a tide, and the abalone shell alone can be sold for almost ten yuan, and he eats meat for nothing.

Specific to Hong Yanwu among them, "General" and "Chen Liquan" are the current highest record holders on the northwest coast, and both of them have an amazing record of fishing out nearly 100 catties of abalone in the tide once, but because the specific number is not far apart, it is difficult to distinguish the superior.

In short, abalone and sea cucumber were the only two seafood that could be sold for money in this revolutionary era when private buying and selling were absolutely forbidden. And abalone is a little stronger than sea cucumber. That is, it can be sent to the national acquisition point by the "sea bumpers" to sell for money in an open manner, without fear of being branded as a speculative and bad element.

However, it should also be noted here that the tide rises and falls, and the stars move and change is a natural law. With the development of society, when the price of abalone meat rises after the 90s, the situation will change dramatically.

Abalone shells were soon not acquired, and even the back kitchens of hotels and hotels would dispose of abalone shells as garbage. Jinzhou District is the last acquisition point in Bincheng, and at that time, all the "sea bumpers" in and out of the city sent abalone shells there, although the price was 54 yuan per kilogram, but no one thought it was a good guy to make money.

The Golden State acquisition point also felt overwhelmed by the "sea bumpers" in the whole coastal city, and soon it was closed. (To be continued.) )