Time flies, time flies. In the blink of an eye, it was the summer of 2016.

My six-year primary school career has come to an end, and I will be enrolled in the first grade of junior high school in the city No. 1 Middle School after the summer vacation.

When my parents came home from work on Friday, my father put down his briefcase, changed into plain clothes, and went into the kitchen to fry the pork chops that had been marinated in the morning.

The cell phone rang on the coffee table in the hall. The mother who was sitting on the sofa picking beans picked up the mobile phone and looked at the caller ID, and found that it was a flying fish, thinking that it was a matter of going out fishing tomorrow, so she got up and walked to the kitchen with a gloomy face, and glared at her father fiercely when she handed the mobile phone to her father, and said without a tone: "I went to work for a week, and everyone was at home on the weekend to drink tea and chat with the family. ”

Unexpectedly, Feiyu Boy was uncharacteristically on the phone, not mentioning fishing at all, but warmly invited our family of three to 18 restaurants tomorrow night to "sit." ”

"What's a good thing? Suddenly invite us to eat in such a high-end restaurant? Did he move in? Mother's face softened.

Recently, she has heard from her father that the 23 suites that Flying Fish Boy was compensated for in the renovation of the old village are about to be handed over. Tonight, he called so solemnly in advance to invite our family of three to a banquet, which must be a great joy.

"The relocation house is being accepted in the past few days, and it is estimated that the building has not been confiscated, and it is definitely not a housewarming. However, it was a pleasure to hear him, and we will just go on time tomorrow night. ”

"Then you didn't ask him what was going on?"

"I said I was stir-frying, and he also heard a 'crackling' sound in the pot, so he said I'd see you later, so he hung up the phone in a hurry. By the way, he also invited Wei Xiaotang's two in-laws. ”

With 23 suites under his name at once, he can't even put on a three-day and three-night flowing water banquet. He is a happy person and is in good spirits, even if it is not a wedding banquet, it is appropriate to invite guests to dinner. Tomorrow night, we will go to the banquet on time with Wei Xiaotang and they will have a good meal for him. Mother said with a smile.

The 18-course restaurant is located in the middle of the Corniche. It was opened by Shunde people.

Shunde has been a rich land since ancient times, and the people like to use local products to cook carefully, evaluate each other, and the overall cooking skills are quite high. At the beginning of this century, the number of Shunde people who went to Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macao and Southeast Asia to cook was increasing, and Shunde cuisine became more and more famous, and gradually became the saying of "eating in Guangdong, cooking in Shunde", which fully demonstrated the unique advantages of Shunde people's cooking technology in Cantonese cuisine.

The 18-course restaurant has many famous signature dishes, such as the ancient method of Peng Gong Goose, Fish in the Pond, Golden Soup Sea Emperor Soup, Jade Scallop Roll, Golden Mussel Dried Lobster, Salt and Pepper Seal Snake, and among the many sashimi categories, the most famous is the fighter among the fish: bluefin tuna.

The next night, we arrived at the restaurant on time with Mr. and Mrs. Wei Xiaotang.

When we arrived at the restaurant box, we learned that Flying Fish Boy had a total of two tables of people for dinner tonight, all arranged in a large box. Men who drink and smoke sit at the main table, and family members and children sit at the second table.

Flying Fish told us that we would eat the tuna he brought with us tonight, and it was the most famous fish of all: the bluefin tuna.

It turned out that Flying Fish and his brother-in-law Ah Hai had just returned from fishing in oil wells in the South China Sea.

"Why don't you call us when you go to Nanyou, it's too few friends!" When their father and Wei Xiaotang heard that the flying fish boy had returned from fishing in the Nanyou Sea, the two of them blamed the flying fish boy for not calling them. After all, near the drilling platform in the South China Sea, there is a top sea fishing ground, which is the dream of a fisherman for a lifetime.

"How's the catch?" Father and Wei Xiaotang hurriedly asked.

"It's okay, but I haven't reached my expected goal yet, leave some regrets, and make up for it next time." The flying fish boy spewed smoke rings into the air, looking cheap and obedient.

"Don't do Tai Chi, how many did you get?" Wei Xiaotang was a little impatient.

"Thirteen of us chartered a boat, four days and three nights back and forth, the boat fare totaled 45,000 yuan, plus bait or something, a total of more than 50,000 yuan."

"Wow, that's expensive!"

"It's less than four thousand per capita, which is not expensive. It is equivalent to cruising the beautiful and rich South China Sea of the motherland. ”

"The thirteen of us caught a total of more than 500 tuna, including more than 400 tuna, and the tuna alone is more than 9,000 catties."

"Wow! Got rich, and the tuna are all bluefin? ”

"Who wouldn't want to!" Flying Fish Boy smiled and said, "There are many big-eyed golden guns and yellow-fin golden guns, and there are five or six blue-fin ones per person." Speaking of this, Feiyuzi pulled my father and Wei Xiaotang aside and whispered: "Of the families who came to eat tonight, I will send one for each family of more than 30 catties, but I will give you two blue-finned ones, and I will give yellow fins or big-eyed ones to the others." After eating, go to my fishing tackle shop to pick it up, I store it in the freezer, you take it back and enjoy it quickly, eat what you should eat, and send it to your friends. Father and Wei Xiaotang hurriedly smiled and hugged their fists and thanked each other.

They all know that bluefin tuna is many times more expensive than big-eyed or yellow-finned tuna.

There is a large freezer for 30,000 yuan for keeping tuna fresh, and the minimum temperature of the freezer can reach minus 68 degrees. According to him, this freezer is specially designed to freeze tuna and other seafood, because of the ultra-low temperature, even if the tuna is frozen for half a year and thawed, it is still as fresh as fresh. The general household refrigerator is at most minus 32 degrees, if this kind of refrigerator freezes tuna, it will not take half a month, and the tuna can only be used in the pot, fried or fried or boiled to eat. If you do it, the color and fragrance will be greatly reduced.

The three of them returned to the couch and waited for the food to be served over tea with the others. Flying Fish Boy said: "Good luck this time for fishing. I found that when the wind was calm and the moon was full, the fish mouth was very good, and we went this time to coincide with a few days around the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, and the fish mouth was very good at night. If my electric mixer doesn't fail, maybe I'll pull a dozen more. ”

"With an electric mixer?" Wei Xiaotang interrupted.

"Dozens of catties of big golden guns are pulled up from the deep sea at a depth of two or three hundred meters, do you think you can pull it up with your hands? Even if you can pull it up, you will be half tired and half dead when you pull one. ”

Seeing Wei Xiaotang's smile on his face, Feiyu said again: "Even the boat owner didn't expect to encounter such a big school of fish." He didn't bring many live squid, and many of them ran out, and if there were still squid, we would really come back with a full boat. "They use small, live squid as bait.

"Record-breaking! Record-breaking! For our fishing clubs in the Sampan Chau area, you have broken the record this time! Wei Xiaotang gave a thumbs up and kept praising it.

"You should call us, don't forget about us when something good happens." Father said with a sudden smile.

"Oh, it's not that I don't want to call you, it's that you two are different from me, you are both public officials, you can't go, right?"

Father and Wei Xiaotang nodded yes with shame on their faces.

Tonight, in order to feast everyone, Flying Fish Boy did a lot of work. In order for everyone to truly taste the original bluefin tuna, he specially instructed the chef to make some pre-meal preparations.

Before the tuna sashimi was served, he asked the waiter to remove the tea from each person's table, and then gave each person half a cup of boiled water, a small dish of boiled carrots and a small plate of pickled sour white radish, and told everyone to eat half a cup of boiled water and two small dishes of radishes, one red and one white.

Mother and Leng Bingmian got together, after all, they participated in a lot of dinners, but they didn't see such a way to eat.

If you want to talk about pre-dinner snacks, you can boil peanuts with five-spice water, cold salad kelp shreds, cold salad chicken feet or cucumbers, etc., but you have never seen such half a cup of boiled water, a plate of carrots, and a plate of white radish.

After everyone finished eating the red and white radish in front of them and drank half a glass of water, Feiyu Boy stood up, clapped his hands, and beckoned everyone and said: "Senior friends, thank you for coming, I invite you to have a light meal tonight, the dish is actually very simple." It's to eat a bluefin tuna of more than 40 catties that I just caught from the South China Sea. Why do you drink a little boiled water and eat some red and white radishes before eating? The main thing is to remove the odor in the mouth first, open the taste buds, and only when we eat bluefin tuna can we really appreciate the original taste. This is the standard way for us anglers to eat tuna. ”

Hearing him say this, Leng Bingbing smiled and said: "It is also said that it is the standard eating method of your fishermen, and it is simply stolen from the Million Sunflower Garden in Nansha, Guangzhou." ”

It turns out that there is a scenic spot in Nansha, Guangzhou called Million Sunflower Garden. There are local chickens that specialize in eating sunflower babies in the scenic area, which are called sunflower chickens. Sunflower chicken tastes particularly fragrant, and when guests eat sunflower chicken, they also serve half a cup of boiled water and a small dish of carrots to clean up the odor in their mouths.

As he spoke, five or six young waitresses each carried a large saucer shaped like a small boat, and the dish was full of bluefin tuna pieces cut almost as thick as a Huawei mobile phone.

My father, who had eaten tuna, said to everyone, "Look, this is fresh tuna, it looks oily and shiny, if it is not fresh or frozen, then its surface is a little dull, and even water seeps out." The taste is completely different. ”

The condiments are also very simple, each person has a small plate in front of them, pour some Japanese soy sauce, and squeeze a little Japanese wasabi, and eat it like this.

In the past few years, the flying fish boy who washed his feet and went to the field is indeed not bad for money, and he usually invites friends to dinner and drink when he has nothing to do. Tonight, I set up two tables and got a forty-pound bluefin tuna. If you order this dish in a high-end seafood restaurant, it will cost about seven or eight hundred yuan a catty, and a bluefin golden gun of more than forty catties will probably cost tens of thousands of yuan.

"Local tyrant! What a tyrant! Wei Xiaotang stuffed a thick fish fillet into his mouth and said while chewing.

Everyone chatted while eating, and the flying fish boy was still unsatisfied, and introduced everyone to the eating method while eating.

"The belly of tuna is the most oily part of the whole fish, and it is the best to eat because of its plump and fatty taste, which is the easiest to linger over." He picked up a thick slice of pot-bellied meat with his chopsticks.

"The mid-belly has a lower oil content than the big belly. The best part is the lower belly of the fish, while the middle belly on the back of the fish is under the red body and above the skin. This part is less sour, but softer and more tender. ”

Finally, he said: "The fat content of bluefin tuna is about 15 percent, while yellowfin tuna is only 2 percent, and in the world of tuna, the higher the fat content, the more delicate the taste, so everyone worships bluefin tuna as the best tuna!" ”

I saw that the fat texture of the pale pink fish belly, which was cut very thickly in the dish, was beautiful. You can feel the fat flowers spreading in your mouth when you enter your mouth.

In addition to making the body, the remaining fish heads are boiled into porridge, and the other skeletons are cut into small pieces and made into pepper and salt. Although the whole table is not very rich, it really contains a lot of gold.

It was nearly nine o'clock and the feast ended.

When everyone said goodbye to each other, Feiyuzi asked his father and Wei Xiaotang to stay, saying that they would talk about fishing the day after tomorrow, and the others went to the fishing tackle shop to get tuna together under the greeting of his wife. After taking the fish, if there is no car, her brother Ah Hai will drive it home separately.

When I went out with my mother, Feiyuzi grabbed me and said, "Jiuyin, don't go yet, you are a man, sit with us for a while, and I will send someone to send your father and you back later." ”

My mother left me alone and left with them.

It turned out that Flying Fish left my father and Wei Xiaotang behind because there was one thing to discuss. He wanted to go to the Sino-Vietnamese border in Guangxi to buy a batch of mahogany furniture. He said that the 23 suites that the old village renovation had given him would be able to take over next month, and he would buy a batch of decent furniture. Now there is no shortage of this money, if you want to buy, simply buy mahogany, and besides, mahogany not only retains its value, but also increases in value.

"Mahogany is expensive, but even if there is a problem with the money, I will sell one or two houses to raise money."

"If you want to buy mahogany, you go to Zhongshan Lecong, where there is a mahogany furniture wholesale street that is more than ten miles long." Wei Xiaotang objected to the fact that the Flying Fish Boy House went to the border of Guangxi to buy furniture.

"I know that Zhongshan Lecong has a ten-mile long street wholesale furniture, but after all, Guangxi is close to the production area, the price is more cost-effective, and it also ensures authenticity."

"That's that, that's. There is a place called Nanshan in Pingxiang City, Guangxi, where there are thousands of mahogany furniture stores. There are also a lot of mahogany in our hometown Ningzhou County. When it comes to the rosewood on the border of Guangxi, Wei Xiaotang is full of interest.

"There are so many mahogany furniture factories, where do the raw materials for wood come from?" Father asked.

"It is said that it first came out of Vietnam, and later the Vietnamese seem to have learned from us in China to do something to close the mountains and cultivate forests, and stop cutting the mahogany, and now the mahogany over there is basically coming out of Myanmar. It takes Vietnam to come out of Myanmar to China, so the rosewood over there is now produced in Myanmar, because it is exported to Guangxi through Vietnam, so everyone says that it is Vietnamese rosewood. "Wei Xiaotang knows a lot about his hometown.

"Vietnamese rosewood, how is the quality?" Father asked again.

"Gee, I know. Vietnamese mahogany mainly includes big red sour branches, huanghuali and rosewood, and the quality has nothing to say. Of course, it can't be compared with our Hainan Huanghuali, but where is there still Hainan Huanghuali to make furniture? It's almost as expensive as gold. A few years ago, a few guys sneaked into the forest of Dafu Mountain in Panyu, Guangzhou, at night to steal four Hainan yellow plough wood, worth millions of dollars, and it is said that they were later sentenced to life imprisonment. "Flying Fish must have done his homework.

"If a new house is empty, there is no furniture or the furniture is too inferior, it will not be of grade. People rely on clothes, Buddha depends on gold, and houses have to rely on furniture. I buy large quantities, and I can get the maximum discount on the price when I go to Pingxiang, and I also guarantee that the raw materials are authentic mahogany. ”

"That's a must. The price, if you go to Vietnam to buy it in person, it will be much cheaper. However, the price of mahogany furniture is half of the material and half of the handwork. Mahogany is expensive, but if you don't do it well, you can use it to make a sofa loose and loose, sit on it and chirp, then it's not worth it, right? So why is Vietnam's mahogany furniture much cheaper than ours in China? The reason is that the Vietnamese are not good at handiwork. But as soon as the mahogany crossed the border and arrived at Pingxiang Nanshan, the price immediately doubled. Why? In Pingxiang Nanshan, the masters who make mahogany furniture are mainly from Dongyang, Zhejiang, Zhejiang Dongyang carpenters, but they are famous all over the world. "Wei Xiaotang is a bit like a narrator for a mahogany dealer.

"I don't go to Vietnam, I buy it in Pingxiang. It should be authentic and cost-effective. This is your brother Wei, after all, it is your hometown. I'm not asking you to find an acquaintance for a discount, I don't lack that money, and you don't owe someone a favor for doing me a favor. You are a local, you take me back, when the time comes, we will take care of all aspects, please have a meal and a drink, to ensure that the goods you get are authentic, the price is reasonable, and there are no bumps and bumps on the way. ”

"This big brother, you can rest assured, although my hometown is not in Pingxiang, but not far from Pingxiang, with me, I promise not to let you suffer big brother. In addition, I suggest you stop by Longzhou to buy 46 cutting boards, and the anvil made of Longzhou maple wood is also famous all over the world. "After Wei Xiaotang got a bluefin tuna with a lot of money, he was a little soft-hearted, and he had to help with this favor.

"I know that Guangxi Longzhou Wood Cutting Boards are indeed famous all over the world, but what should I do when I want to buy 46 so many?"

"You have 23 suites, each with a raw and cooked cutting board, isn't there only 46?"

"That's just as well." Flying Fish Boy laughed too.

"Buy mahogany furniture, Brother Wei will take you to Pingxiang is a wise choice. But what's the matter with me? Father drank a cup of tea and smiled self-deprecatingly.

Flying Fish Boy hurriedly added tea to my father, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, you wait for me to take your time." It is true that I went to the border of Guangxi to buy everything this time, but I also got news that the Guangxi Chongzuo Fishing Association will also hold the China-Vietnam International Lure Invitational Tournament in the three scenic spots of Ningming Huashan, Zuojiang Leaning Tower, and Detian Waterfall, and the prize money is quite generous, depending on the level of the three of us......."

"Oh, you're trying to tell us to go fishing with you? No way! No way! ”

"Why not? It's a trivial thing for me to go to buy a house. I went with Brother Wei to buy a piece of furniture, and after paying for it, they delivered it, and we went home. What's the point? You go too, the three of us, plus Ah Hai, and Jiuyin, the five of us drove two cars and went quietly, happily played, participated in the three-point game, no matter what the result was, we came back quietly. Speaking of this, he handed a cigarette to my father and Wei Xiaotang and said, "Don't worry! My brother-in-law and I drove two cars, and I was responsible for all the expenses on the road. ”

"We are not like you, with a lot of money in our pockets, and we will leave when we say we're leaving. Love goes wherever it goes. We can't. Besides, if you don't win an international fishing competition, if you don't win a prize, and show your face on the newspaper and radio, won't it hurt us? At that time, the Commission for Discipline Inspection asked us, "Who told you to go fishing?" ”

The three of them were smoking, and when my father saw me sitting next to me, he said thoughtfully, "Then you call Jiuyin again, what do you say?" ”

Flying Fish said with a smile on his face: "My nephew of Jiuyin Xian, who has been obsessed with Tianqin for several years, I want to take this opportunity to take him to the birthplace of Tianqin for a walk, and let him take advantage of this summer vacation to participate in the Tianqin training class." ”

"Is there a Lyra training class over there?" Father hurriedly turned to Wei Xiaotang and asked.

Wei Xiaotang hurriedly nodded and said, "Yes!" We have training courses in Ningzhou County. I have a cousin who runs the largest Tianqin training center in the county. She played very well, and she has been invited to CCTV, Nanning Folk Song Festival, Malaysia and Germany, and has won many awards. I introduced Jiuyin to participate in the training, and there was no charge for tuition, and room and board were all included. ”

After hearing this, Feiyu also hurriedly said: "A person who learns the Tao, no matter how high his Taoism is, if he has not been to Laoshan Maoshan Mountain, his Taoism will not be high." Those who practice martial arts, no matter how good their kung fu is, if they don't go to Wudang Mountain in Shaolin Temple for a few years, they are not masters. No matter how well you play the Lyra, if you don't go to the birthplace of the Lyra to communicate with others, then you will always be a nobody. ”

"You're killing three birds with one stone!" After hearing this, my father finally understood, picked up his cup and drank a cup of tea and said with a smile.

"Sort of, brother, even if I ask you two to accompany me, we buy furniture, fishing by the way, Jiuyin is also on summer vacation, he will go with us to open his eyes and gain a long insight."

My father turned around and asked me if I would go to Guangxi to attend the Tianqin training class.

I heard that I went to Guangxi with them, bought furniture, fished, and asked me to learn Tianqin, which seemed to be very fun, besides, I had never been to Guangxi, so I felt very curious and yearning, so I agreed and said, "Okay, I'll go!" ”

"How long will it take to go before and after?" Father asked again.

"Naturally, the longer the better." Flying Fish said with a smile.

"I really envy you, a nouveau riche who washes your feet and goes to the fields, you can go at any time, and no one cares how long you walk. No one cares if you go to the Spratly Islands and Zhongsha Islands, but we can't, we are public officials, and we have to take a leave. In this way, you set a departure date, and we can go back to the unit to ask for leave. It seems that I can only take annual leave, and now my superiors are encouraging everyone to take annual leave, so I should be allowed to take leave. According to the length of service, I have 12 days of annual leave a year, plus when I returned to the typhoon, I was on duty for three night shifts, and I can also take three days off, so that it is fifteen or sixteen days, plus the weekends before and after, so that we can go for a month. At this point, the father looked at the flying fish boy and said, "But in advance." Although I am the director of the city's local affairs office, Qingshui Yamen, and I don't make a loud fart, but then again, I am also the number one leader of the relevant units in the city, and if a person like me wants to leave Guangdong, he has to ask for leave from the top leader of the municipal party committee....... However, this is just a formality. There is no reason for cadres to take annual leave. ”

"I'm also going to take annual leave. I haven't taken a day of annual leave for four years, and I haven't taken any vacation or make up the money. Wei Xiaotang also said.

"I'm just afraid that there will be opinions in the cold." Flying Fish asked Wei Xiaotang.

"What can she say? I'm going to my hometown with your two eldest brothers, what can she say? ”

"Okay, let's leave in a week, how about we get together before we go?"

Everyone said in unison, "Good!" ”