Chapter Thirty-Three: Late Night Dinner
It's dark.
A round and a half moon hangs in the sky.
Leaving the dark sands, the sea calmed down.
At the cruising speed of the fishing boat, Zhou Sheng fished out the conch caught on the bottom of the sea in the afternoon, and he didn't know where to find a brush to brush the conch shell.
"I'll go down to the bottom of the sea and catch some fish for dinner." Zhou Shengdao.
Chen Yuan glared at Zhou Sheng and said, "This is the deep sea, and it is dangerous to go down at night." ”
Zhou Sheng is not an ordinary person, and the water is also very good, but night diving is risky after all.
"How's dinner?"
"Safety is paramount." Lin Xinhai also said: "What is there, what to eat." ”
Night sailing is somewhat boring.
Lin Xinhai handed over the driver's seat to Chen Yuan and went back to the cabin to sleep.
Zhang Cheng, Meng Jianshan, He Fei and Yang Xun also went back to the cabin.
Zhou Sheng washed the conch, took a net bag and put it up, and threw it into the freezer: "I will also sleep and change shifts at night." ”
Chen Yuan said 'um', and he was alone in the cockpit, took out a lighter, lit a cigarette, and took a puff.
Two hours later, the fishing boat came to the northwest corner of the Shenhu Sea, and when the stabilizer was turned on again, the hull of the boat barely felt shaking.
Chen Yuan first washed the rice and cooked the rice, took out the conch that Zhou Sheng had cleaned and washed it with fresh water again, then threw it into the pot, cut a few slices of ginger, and poured it into mineral water to boil.
The generator is working.
The lights on the top of the cabin were on, and Chen Yuan turned on the fish trapping lights around the hull again.
Chen Yuan They are not alone in this sea area, and after counting carefully, there are still 6 fishing boats that can see the lights, and those are squid boats.
It is now closed to the sea, but licensed fishing boats can go out to sea to fish for squid. July and August are good times for squid fishing......
Chen Yuan went to sea this time with a string of hooks that specialize in squid fishing, and there are 12 of them in a string.
The lights on the fishing boat were bright, and Chen Yuan took out a squid string hook, and the length of each string was nearly ten meters. The rod was still a 3.7-meter heavy fishing rod, the bait was removed, the squid hook was tied up, and a 3-kilogram lead sinker was attached...... Then shine a high-gloss flashlight on the squid hook.
The squid hook is glow-in-the-dark, and when you shine it with a flashlight, the light emits even brighter.
Arrange the fishing line, first lower the plumb, and then put down the squid hooks one by one.
Squid has good phototaxis, as long as there is light, the surrounding squid will run over by themselves, no need to cast bait or anything.
Generally speaking, squid are active in deep water in the first half of the night and pelagic water in the second half of the night...... If you have a fish finder, you can see the squid activity area at a glance. And when the lure lights are turned on, the squid will gather around the hull.
Chen Yuan looked at the fish scout, and the fishing line was put in more than fifty, so he went back to control the boat, and then looked at the conch boiling in the pot.
"It smells so good." He Fei walked out and said, "Is there anything I can help with?" ”
"Boil a pot of boiling water, I'm fishing for a blow boy." Chen Yuan said.
“OK。” As He Fei spoke, he poured mineral water into the pot and put it on the battery stove.
Yang Xun also got up, first looked at the picture of the fish scout, and said, "There are a lot of fish here." ”
"It's mostly blowers." Chen Yuandao: "There are a lot of squid fishing boats around."
"How long has the rod been down?"
"It's been five or six minutes." Chen Yuan said.
"I'll get up and see." Yang Xun went over to help with the fishing rod, which was a matter of pressing the switch.
The speed of the electric wheel reeling is very fast, and in less than a minute, the fishing line is retracted.
"There are fish." Yang Xun said that he wanted to lift the pole, and the two hands worked together, very reluctantly, to lift the pole.
He Fei took a bucket over, grabbed the fishing line, and pulled the hook up. A string of 12 hooks, hit 8 blowpipes.
Blow the pipe, that's the little blowpipe, the little squid......
Chen Yuan's fishing boats are on the periphery, and the squid on the periphery are relatively small. And it's the beginning of July, and the squid is not particularly fat. But these little squid are very tender.
"The harvest was good, there were 8 of them." He Fei threw the squid hook down and said with a smile.
Yang Xun said: "These squid are blanched or sashimi? ”
"Blanch." Chen Yuan said: "The water is boiled. Swimming squid ......"
"I've caught a squid." Zhang Cheng and Meng Jianshan walked out.
Chen Yuan let out an 'um' and shouted, "Zhou Sheng." ”
"Get up." Zhou Sheng just fell asleep for a while, and now he is sleepy.
"The small fish in the refrigerator helped to deal with it, and there were a few big octopuses, cook a pot of fish soup, fry a plate of octopus, and blow the tube. It's nine o'clock, so I'll get dinner and eat it first. Chen Yuandao.
"Hmm......" Zhou Sheng rubbed his face and stretched hard.
Lin Xinhai also walked out: "I caught a blow pipe." ”
"That's a lot." Chen Yuan said: "Why doesn't your fishing boat come out to catch a?" ”
"There are not many blowpipes in the offshore waters, and the fuel cost is high when they go to the sea. Nowadays, the weather at sea is changeable, and you will have to go back in a few days at most, and if you are unlucky, it is easy to lose money. Lin Xinhai said, spread his hands, and continued: "The important thing is that the fishing boat needs a permit to leave the port now." ”
Lin Xinhai took Chen Yuan's place.
Chen Yuan took out another pair of squid hooks, tied them to Zhou Sheng's fishing rod, and threw them into the sea.
Zhang Cheng and the others helped together to prepare dinner......
Wash the processed blowpipe with fresh water, throw it into a boiling ferromagnetic pot, take it out in less than ten seconds, cut it into pieces, and put it in a basin.
Meng Jianshan prepares to dip in water.
Dipping water includes light soy sauce, ginger water, mustard, lemon......
Chen Yuan brought a small bowl to the master, and he tasted it first: "Fresh, tender...... Eat this blow pipe boy or at sea, catch it, cook it, and eat it. ”
Zhou Sheng got Chen Yuan a piece of blow pipe that rolled in the water and sent it to Chen Yuan's mouth: "Try it." ”
Wonima ......
Chen Yuan's bite was full of mustard, and a breath of cool air rushed straight to the heart of his head: "Wo Nima ......"
Zhou Sheng laughed.
There were eight of them in one stroke, and they were eaten in a few clicks.
The seafood that has just come out of the water is fresh, and the small blow pipe is very tender. Roll it in boiling water for a while, and it will be just right to take it out, and it will taste crispy and tender.
This thing is going to freeze, and it won't smell like it is now.
Talk and joke, play around.
The conch is out of the pot.
There are more than a dozen conchs, with an average of two per person.
The boiled conch, dipped in water, tastes very good. It's just that I just said that I made a fuss, and I cooked it a little older.
Zhou Sheng took a few lobsters and fish, and cooked a big pot of fish soup.
Yang Xun and the others raised another rod, this rod has 9 blowers, all of them were taken off and washed with fresh water, and the fish soup was boiled together.
"We're going to fish for blowguns tonight." He Fei said.
"I didn't bring a squid hook......," Zhang Chengdao said.
"I have it here, 100 yuan a string." Chen Yuan smiled and said, "A string of hooks earns you five yuan." ”
"Okay." Zhang Cheng smiled and nodded.
Zhang Cheng also knows how to fish, and he knows the price of squid hooks, 12 strings of skin-absorbing fish hooks, which are sold for 95 yuan per string on the Zhapo side.
Zhang Cheng then gave Chen Yuan two hundred yuan, and Chen Yuan took them two strings.
Zhang Cheng and Meng Jianshan were together, and the two came to the fishing position to set up the fishing rod......
He Fei and the others were very well prepared, they had already set up their fishing rods, and when they had eaten, they began to work.
Chen Yuan and Zhou Sheng's fishing rods were collected again.
The two poles hit 23 blowpipes at one time, and only one was short of a full bow.
"It's time to eat." Zhou Sheng shouted.
Snow-white fish broth, sprinkled with some chopped green onions and a little salt.
Chen Yuan and the others brought a small half catty of chives, which was placed in the cabin and would not be broken in two or three days.
The rice is also cooked......
Chen Yuan served rice to everyone and said, "It's easier tonight." Tomorrow I catch a fish, and then I have a big meal. ”
"It's not an easy meal." He Fei said: "Big lobster, conch, fish...... Blowing the pipe, all alive. ”
"That's it...... If tonight's meal is on the island, there will be no one or two thousand that will not be served. Zhang Cheng also said with a smile.
The price of blowing pipes is also very expensive now, and it sells for fifty or sixty in the market. If you eat it in a seafood restaurant, 1 pound will cost about 70.
A hodgepodge of fish, lobster, octopus,, and two crabs.
After frying it in oil, this soup only has a slight fishy smell, and the umami is so strong that it melts the tongue.