Chapter 600
Zhao Qin found an octopus. This guy was very cunning. He hid in a gap and couldn’t be pulled out.
He simply ignored it. He didn’t like to eat it anyway.
He was determined to catch something else. After a while, the octopus thought the danger was over and ran out.
“Brother, look, I picked up a snail. It’s really big.” Ah He showed the snail in his hand like a treasure.
“Land snail, not bad.”
Zhao Ping turned his head and smiled, “Oh, you know land snails.”
Zhao Qin didn’t bother to pay attention to his elder brother. It was just that he hadn’t seen the Xishi tongue just now. Is there any need to say that he is short-sighted in such a veiled way?
At this time, the water had been pumped out almost, and the sound of splashing was louder.
“Wow, it’s really hidden.” Zhao Ping took a look and said with a big laugh.
He went into the water, but didn’t rush to catch the fish. Instead, he used his feet to quickly poke the water back and forth. It was not to muddy the water to catch fish, but to confirm whether there were any eels.
Confirming that there was none, his first target was the one that had exposed its back before, and now he could see clearly that it was a perch.
“Ah He, go up and turn off the pump first.” Zhao Ping spoke again.
Ah He responded and climbed up the pit from the side. The noise that had been surrounding him for a while finally disappeared. Suddenly, he felt very quiet around his ears, and he was a little uncomfortable.
The big fish was naturally strong. Zhao Ping first pinched the fish’s head, then dug his hands into its gills, and then he held the big fish down.
“It’s 15 jin.” He said happily.
Zhao Qin only took a look and retorted: “More than that, at least 17 jin.”
Zhao Ping was a little unhappy when he heard someone challenging his authority, “It’s definitely not 17, Ah He, how much do you think it is?”
Ah He had just gone down to the bottom of the pit again. When he heard this question, his mind was confused for a moment. He carefully glanced at the two brothers and secretly complained in his heart,
I don’t know if the eldest and the second brother don’t get along, and the third brother will end up lying down.
“I think it’s about the same.” He said with a dry laugh, not knowing whether he was agreeing with Zhao Ping or Zhao Qin.
Zhao Ping put the fish into the bucket, but the bucket couldn’t hold it. “Ah He, take the fish up and put it in the small puddle next to it.”
Ah He sighed. If he hadn’t said it earlier, he wouldn’t have to come down again.
This time he learned his lesson and simply squatted on top.
Zhao Qin also went into the water to catch fish. The first fish he caught was a rock bream weighing more than two kilograms. This is a good catch.
Ah Yuan was also lucky. He went into the water and touched it casually, and actually touched a lobster, which looked like it was about seven or eight taels.
As Zhao Ping said, it was really a hidden treasure. Three sea bass were caught, and a rock bream weighing more than one kilogram was caught. There were more black hairs, at least 20 or 30 fish.
However, half of them did not meet the standard. They were too small and must be released.
Shi Jiugong caught less than ten kilograms this time, which was probably about the same. Then there were some yellow bream, fragrant heads and the like.
Zhao Ping was amazed again that this pit was not a loss. These seafood can be sold for at least one or two thousand yuan, and all expenses are saved.
After everything was done, it was almost 1 o’clock. Some people carried buckets and some carried snakeskin bags.
Zhao Qin took the women and children to the boat and started cooking. Zhao Ping and Ah He had to run two more times to move the snails to the boat.
“Sister-in-law, you take a break today and I will do it.” Zhao Qin did not let Xia Rong do it. Cooking on the boat was somewhat different from cooking at home.
“Okay, is there anything to wash?”
“No, Ah Xue and I can do it.” Zhao Qin was selecting ingredients.
The snails must be blanched in a dish, and then a five-pound sea bass should be killed to stew soup. The fish meat should be served first, and when the meat is almost eaten, the fish soup can be used to cook noodles. This is the most convenient way.
He also took out the few nine-segment shrimps and the lobster, and blanched them with the snails later and gave them to the two children.
After selecting the ingredients, simply wash them with fresh water, put them in the pot, cut a few slices of ginger, add a little water to the bottom of the pot, pour snails, shrimps and the like into the pot and start cooking.
“Aqin, are you still on the island this afternoon?” Zhao Ping and Ah He also got on the boat. All the snails and shellfish together, picked up five and a half snakeskin bags, and it was a big project to go back and pick them.
“Let’s go fishing in the afternoon, go to the edge of the lobster island, there is shade there, the island is too sunny.”
At this moment, the sun came out, fortunately there was a sunscreen net on the boat, and with the clear sky, the sea breeze also rose, it was not too hot.
Zhao Ping felt a little pity, but looking at the two children who released too much passion in the morning and were a little wilted at the moment, he nodded, “Okay, let’s go fishing, I’ll start the boat first.”
At this moment, the tide was rising. The reason why their boat was parked a little far away from the island at that time was to worry about being stranded due to low tide. It was just right to start now.
It is about half an hour away from the lobster island, and the rice can be cooked just in time.”Brother, I’ve killed the fish.” Ah He killed the bass and put it in a basin.
“It’s too big. Cut it into pieces of seven or eight centimeters.” Just now, Axue wanted to help kill the fish, but Zhao Qin refused.
Taking advantage of the break while cooking the snails, Zhao Qin also mixed some dipping sauce, that is, adding a little vinegar and sugar to the light soy sauce, and then pouring a little vine pepper oil into it.
The child’s was separated first, and two more millet sticks were cut into the rest.
“The snails are ready, you eat first.” Zhao Qin first picked out the shrimps on top and put them on a plate, then poured the remaining snails into a basin and put them aside.
“Let’s eat together.” Xia Rong also felt tired now. After all, she was pregnant. Although the work this morning was not heavy, she was not idle all the time.
This was also the reason why she had no objection when the two brothers just said they would not go to the island in the afternoon.
“Sister-in-law, please don’t be polite as a family. This snail smells fishy when it’s cold, so you have to eat it while it’s hot.” Zhao Qin said while busy.
Xia Rong looked at his busy brother-in-law with a dazed look in his eyes. He thought about how in the first half of last year, he was still taking precautions and not doing his job properly.
Now, not only can I make money, but I can also take care of my family.
He is only 23 years old. If someone at his age had so much property and had to be taken care of for everything, he would probably have drifted away a long time ago. But he didn’t, and he didn’t even have a bad style at all.
Even if Ah went to play with them, I didn’t hear that he went with them.
At this point, she stopped being polite and took a skewer and started picking snails. Chen Xue was already peeling the shrimps and putting them in the bowls of the two children.
“Give the lobster to my sister, I won’t eat it.” There was only one lobster, Ayuan said proactively.
After all, Miaomiao was not yet three years old, so she didn’t really understand. She just stood there, smiling, waiting for Chen Xue to feed her.
Xia Rong also came over, picked out a few larger snails, removed the yellow tail, liver and gallbladder and other parts, and put them aside for the two children to eat.
Adults are not so particular and can eat anything except the shells.
Chen Xue didn’t need to feed the two children, so she turned to the other side and started feeding Zhao Qin.
Zhao Qin was not idle while chewing the snails. He heated up the oil in a pan and briefly fried both sides of the seabass. Then he added water directly and added two slices of ginger. He waited until the water boiled and cooked for another seven or eight minutes.
Freshwater fish also needs to be cooked in boiling water, otherwise the fish soup will not be white, and sea bass will not be used at all. No matter how you cook the soup, it will be milky white.