Around two o'clock in the afternoon.

The tide almost reached the highest point, and Li Duoyu drove a sampan boat and took his uncle Chen Dongqing to the sea area where the net was lowered.

After arriving at the place.

Li Duoyu put on gloves and scooped up the buoy with a small red flag first.

These buoys are used to warn passing fishing boats that there are fishing nets, but they are all sunken sticky nets, and there is no fear of being swept up by the boat's propellers.

If the floating net is released, if the fisherman does not look at the nearby waters, the propeller can easily be hooked to the net if the powered fishing boat strays into the net release area.

Small fishing boats are easy to solve, only need to cut the nets, if it is a large boat, it is very troublesome, maybe you have to find a water ghost to cut the nets.

If the weather is bad and the waves are strong, the fishing boat loses power, and it becomes very dangerous.

For example, when catching anchovies at the mouth of the river last year, he and his cousin have been guarding the sticky nets, just for fear that passing fishing boats will be caught in the sticky nets.

After scooping up the buoy.

Li Duoyu began to pull the net, because the sticky net sank to the bottom of the sea at least more than 20 meters deep, it was quite laborious to pull the net up.

When Li Duoyu pulled, due to the force, the fishing boat also slowly moved forward.

The brother-in-law is in charge of dismantling the fish.

Since this area has a muddy bottom and is not a reef area, there are almost no reef fish such as grouper and rice fish.

Most of the nets are pike crabs, half-side fish, and occasionally large conchs.

For fishermen in this era, these are relatively common seafood, and even if they are caught, they will not be particularly excited.

After almost a hundred meters.

A large yellow snail hung up on the sticky net.

After seeing the big snail.

Chen Dongqing's eyes lit up, and he said excitedly: "Yes, I also got a papaya snail." ”

After hearing this name, Li Duoyu was stunned, and he reacted.

In this era, there was no such thing as a coconut snail, and local fishermen generally called it papaya snail.

In fact, when Li Duoyu heard the coconut snail for the first time, he was also speechless, this thing obviously looks like a papaya, not like a coconut at all, why is it called a coconut snail.

The papaya snail is really not delicious, if the previous big conch was the ceiling of the conch world, the current papaya snail is the younger brother of the conch world.

The snail meat is hard and woody, and it can't be boiled for too long, otherwise it's the same as eating rubber.

In this era, papaya snails, like abalone, are shells that are more valuable.

The shell of the abalone is used to make medicinal herbs, and the shell of the papaya snail is used to make handicrafts, and some craftsmen on the beach will make the shell of the papaya snail into a snail.

There are also many butchers who kill pigs who buy the shells of this large conch, and once the pork is not sold, they will carry the pork to the village to sell.

And selling pork is not by shouting, but by blowing conch, once the villagers hear the sound of "toot~toot~", they know that it is the pork seller.

When he was a child, Li Duoyu once asked an old man in the village why the pork seller used blowing a large conch as a signal to attract customers.

The old man didn't particularly understand, but simply told him something more superstitious, saying that the butcher killed too much, so he followed the example of Shigong (Taoist) to brag about the horn to drive away ghosts and evil spirits, because the horn is relatively small, they blow the conch.

Since the conch comes from the sea, every time the butcher blows the snail trumpet, he will silently say in his heart: "Get out of the sea of suffering as soon as possible and be reincarnated." ”

Looking at the papaya snail in front of him, which was at least more than three catties, Li Duoyu was more concerned about whether the big snail was "pregnant" at the moment.

Because there is a probability of a jewel called "Merlot Bead" appearing in the body of the papaya snail, and the larger the size, the higher the probability of the orb appearing.

However, Li Duoyu also heard the name of "Merle Pearl" in the years when it became popular in the sea.

In the past, some people in their village also made beads from papaya snails, but most of the beads were not particularly round.

In addition, the luster is not very showy, and it is really not as beautiful as pearls, and most fishermen don't care much about it.

When Li Duoyu returned to Dandan Island from the island country, the old Tang who loved fishing once said that when he was young, he once opened a Merlot bead with a diameter of more than two centimeters and more than 50 carats.

At that time, no one wanted it at all, so I took it to the bottom of the box, until later the Mellot beads became inexplicably popular, and one carat could be sold for 5,000 yuan.

Old Tang rummaged through the cabinets and searched all over the house, but he didn't find the beads, and later asked his son to find out.

When his son was a child, he had already stolen the Merlot bead and used it as a marble to play with, losing it to a big boy in the village.

Old Tang was so angry that he wanted to beat his son, but unfortunately he was too old to win at all.

Li Duoyu feels that the probability of opening a merry bead from a papaya snail is very small, and if you have this luck, it is estimated that you can win the lottery if you buy a lottery ticket.

But people are like this, once the opportunity is placed in front of you, you can't help but want to try it.

Li Duoyu continued to pull the fishing net, and so far, the catch was not good, but it was not particularly bad.

Due to the muddy bottom, there are quite a lot of crabs, boss fish, and halffish.

But it hasn't been pulled for a while.

Li Duoyu found that it was very difficult to pull, as if it was hanging on the earth.

But fortunately, it can still be pulled.

In this case, the fishermen will be very excited, because it is very likely that the fish and big fish have been netted, otherwise it would not be so difficult to pull.

Uncle Chen Dongqing saw that Li Duoyu was struggling to pull, so he also came up to help pull the net.

Not a moment later.

A six or seven pound aconitum fish surfaced with the sticky net, and after seeing this fish, the uncle was still a little disgusted.

This fish is notoriously unpalatable, the meat is very woody, and it often smells of stinky mud, even if the fish is large, but most of the time, it cannot be sold for a price.

To say an exaggeration, fishermen really don't like to net aconitum fish, because this kind of fish generally appears in groups, often one appears, there will be a second, if the net catches the fish, the sticky net may be dried up.

Although everyone dislikes the aconitum fish, Li Duoyu regards this thing as a treasure, especially after seeing the round belly of the aconitum fish, his face is full of smiles.

After removing the aconitum from under the sticky net.

Li Duoyu took out the mallet from the sampan boat and struck it precisely on the flat head of the aconitum fish, as it straightened the fish's body.

Li Duoyu used a fish-killing knife to insert it into the lower end of the abdomen of the aconitum fish, and then performed a caesarean section on "it".

Immediately afterwards, I saw that there were two symmetrical yellow ovaries in the stomach of the aconitum fish.

"Amount"

Chen Dongqing was a little surprised: "This aconitum actually has fish roe, which is still a bit valuable, and some people like to eat fish roe." ”

Li Duoyu smiled: "Holly, do you remember when we were in Nagasaki, there was an ingredient that was roasted on a charcoal fire?" ”

was reminded by Li Duoyu like this, and Chen Dongqing's memory of death came to life.

"That hard, a bit like a man's appetizer that tastes weird?"

Li Duoyu nodded and smiled: "That's right, that's that thing, that thing is called mullet roe, and it's made of this thing." ”

Chen Dongqing looked surprised: "No, how do you know so clearly." ”

"You nerd don't understand, I recognized it at a glance when I ate that thing, and I asked the president about the recipe for mullet roe, do you want me to make some for you to eat, so that you can make up for it with form, and strive to come twice a month."

"Get out."

There is definitely no market for the "delicacy" of mullet roe in Rongcheng, mainly because the way to eat it is too particular and troublesome, and everyone may not be able to accept that taste.

However, after Li Duoyu's mullet roe is made, there is one person who will accept mullet roe 100%, and that is Chen Element, who opened a Japanese restaurant.

Just like grilled eel, mullet roe, as one of the three major delicacies of Japanese cuisine, is also an unavoidable ingredient, which can be sold to her at a high price after it is completely ready.

Just as Li Duoyu expected, next, sure enough, he encountered a school of aconitum fish, and one after another the pot-bellied aconitum fish were pulled up by Li Duoyu.

After the thousands of meters of fishing nets were drawn, Li Duoyu sat on the board of the boat with sweat all over, and behind him, there were dense and shiny silver aconitum fish.

For Li Duoyu, this trip is a big profit, the fish eggs are used to make mullet roe and sell to Chen Yuan, and the mullet meat that fishermen don't like to eat is used to make fishmeal and feed it to eels.

(End of chapter)