Chapter 232 Chef Li
Chapter 232 Chef Li
Seeing that he was fine but was sighing again, Chen Yongwei thought that he was not satisfied with the fish he caught today.
"Brother, the sea has been calm these days, and there are many fishing boats out to sea, so the catch will be less."
"It's not good to be calm. The sea might be planning something big."
Li Changle looked at the calm sea, raised his head to glance at the bright sunshine, and thought about buying a radio from the black market in Lucheng next time to listen to the weather forecast.
"It's like this every year after May. It's either this month or next month that's windy. As long as it doesn't rain during the groundbreaking days, it's fine."
"My dad said it probably won't happen in the next few days. He can't feel his legs."
The old man's legs always feel uncomfortable before the weather changes. After decades of exposure to wind and rain, the sequelae of rheumatism and snake bites are still quite serious.
"Old people are like this. Whenever it's rainy, my grandma complains about waist and leg discomfort."
"If you catch fish that are good for rheumatism, bring them back and let them eat more."
More than ten minutes later, the boat arrived at the sea area where the jar was lowered. Chen Yongwei rushed to pick up the iron hook, fish out the float, the lead weight, pull the main line, and pull the jar up with force.
He picked up the first jar, "Man, there's a pair in there!"
"People know how to find a partner, and so do they."
Li Changle took the jar with a smile, and saw a pair, one black and one white, huddled together to strengthen their affection. They were tightly attached to the bottom of the jar and were a little embarrassed to come out.
He used a bamboo hook that looked a bit like a tickler, and hooked the octopus out of the jar and poured it into a rubber bucket.
There is also something in the second jar, but it is a bit small, and it looks like it weighs less than one or two taels. I'd better let it go and grow a little longer.
The collected cans are neatly arranged on the deck. After several groups of cans are collected and sorted out, they are put into the sea.
"Brother, after we collect the octopus, it's time for Big Brother to come back. After we eat, should we go to the island to pump out the water hole or trawle the net?"
Li Changle was thinking about buying a trawl net. Apart from the last time he encountered a school of silver pomfret, he had never properly trawled a few times. "After dinner, let's go trawl a net and then go home to help move things."
"Okay!" Chen Yongwei, sweating profusely, finally pulled a group of cans that were caught by something onto the deck.
At this time, Brother Li appeared in their sight driving a fishing boat. The fishing boat slowly approached this side and waved to several people.
Second Brother Li gestured to him and dropped anchor. Li Changle put down the jar in his hand, waited for the boat to approach, and jumped over with him.
Brother Li started the net machine, and Li Changle and the other man collected the net. They watched the bulging net bag float to the surface of the water, which seemed to weigh about four or five hundred kilograms.
The brothers all smiled and dragged the fishing net onto the deck.
Brother Li stepped forward and untied the net bag, and various red, white and spotted fish appeared in front of the people.
The majority of the fish were white horseheads, with five or six large yellow croakers weighing at least two kilograms, bright red big-eyed fish, several types of sea bass, flounder, bluefin bream, and swordfish, as well as water bream, shrimps, and crabs.
Li Changle picked up a large silvery-white yellow croaker and shook his head with some heartache. The one caught during the day and the one caught at night looked like two different species.
Because there is a golden skin gland on the lower side of the body of yellow croaker, which secretes yellow pigment, making the yellow croaker golden yellow.
However, the golden pigment is easily decomposed and faded by ultraviolet rays or strong light. The large yellow croaker caught during the day usually appears silvery white because the yellow pigment is easily decomposed and faded under strong light.
The yellow croaker caught during the day and at night is much cheaper than that caught at night. He really doesn't want to sell it at sixty or seven cents a pound.
Li Changle said to Brother Li: "Brother, keep three of the yellow croakers for yourself and give two to my brother-in-law to take back to my sister."
"Okay!" Brother Li also felt that the price during the day was not worth it, so he nodded in agreement and caught the fish to bleed it.
Li Changle didn't expect the eldest brother to agree so readily. He looked at the second brother Li in surprise, "Big brother agreed? Did I hear it right?"
"We have mouths too. Didn't you say that if we don't eat more now, we'll feel terrible if we eat one in the future?"
"Second brother, your brother is very good at calculating and won't tell a lie."
Brother Li rolled his eyes at him and said, "You have always been counting on the good stuff since you were a child!"
"Second brother, this net is really good for killing Jia!" Chen Yongwei said happily, stretching his neck.
Brother Li nodded excitedly, "Hey, this network is good!"
"Awei, you continue to collect the cans!" Li Changle said happily, patting Li Erge, "Get started, sort the fish, cook something to eat, and then go pull another net and go home."
"Okay!" Brother Li hurriedly got a rubber bucket, a bamboo basket and other things, pulled up his gloves, and started working.
The live fish are picked out and put in the live tank, and the dead ones are put in rubber buckets and kept fresh with ice.
At the end of the sorting, white horsehead fish was the most abundant, filling an entire rubber bucket, with one bucket weighing about 150 to 160 fish. Walleye, sea bass, and flounder also filled a bucket.
Water crabs, blue crabs, Spanish mackerel, shrimps and miscellaneous fish were filled into another bucket. There were a total of forty or fifty blue crabs, swimming crabs and orchid crabs. The fat ones were tied up and put into the bucket, while the thin and small ones were released.
After they sorted the fish, Chen Yongwei also collected all the octopuses, poured them into the fish hold, and covered it with the lid to prevent them from escaping.
With eight groups of jars and the two groups led by Brother Li, they caught about eighty to ninety kilograms of octopus, and more than a hundred of them.
After cleaning up, Big Brother Li fetched water to wash the deck, while Li Changle and Second Brother Li sorted out the fishing nets and put them away.
"Ah An, I'm done here. The noodles I cooked are not tasty. Who between you and Ah Le will cook?"
"Ale's cooking is better than ours. I'll go help Awei put the jar into the sea." After saying this, Brother Li jumped onto the opposite fishing boat as if he was escaping.
Li Changle looked at Brother Li, "You've been out at sea for so long, don't you do anything on the boat?"
"The food we cooked tasted terrible. The rice and flour were all clumped together. There was either too much salt or too little. They said it tasted terrible and didn't want us to cook it."
Brother Li smiled innocently and went behind the driver's seat to take out the food that Zhou Ruonan's sister-in-law had prepared. "Anan and your sister-in-law have already cut it up. You just need to cook it and eat it."
"All right!"
Li Changle didn't want to be tired for a long time and then eat something disgusting.
He washed his hands resignedly and looked at the bamboo basket filled with green onions, small pond vegetables, chopped salted fat pork, and rice and flour.
"Brother, you light the fire, I'll go catch a couple of crabs, clams, and shrimp."
"Okay!" Brother Li took out the yellow clay stove, placed it in a place sheltered from the wind, used pine needles to light the charcoal, placed the small iron pot on the stove, and scooped a ladle of fresh water into the pot.
Li Changle caught some clams and shrimps and put them in a bucket. He scooped a ladle of sea water and soaked them in it. He also caught three swimming crabs, rinsed his hands in the sea water for a few times, removed the crab claws, cut them into small pieces and put them in an enamel bowl.
"Ah Le, the water is on."
"You're boiling water before you even refine the oil?"
"Don't you need water to cook noodles?"
"Then we have to refine the oil and burn it!"
"I don't know how to do it. I'll help you wash the clams."
Li Changle poured water into the steel pot, placed the small iron pot on the stove, and when the pot was heated, put the fat meat in. With a sizzling sound, a salty and fragrant smell came to his nose.
Brother Li came over with the cleaned clams. He had already fried the crabs, sautéed the shredded ginger and onions, and boiled the water to add the shrimps and rice noodles.
Brother Li sniffed and said, "It smells so good. When the ship comes back, I'll leave the job of cooking at sea to you."
Li Changle smiled and said, "The wages are calculated separately. I will just do the work, and you guys wash the dishes, clean the pots, and rinse the deck."
What he hated most in the past was washing pots and dishes, and he often had to wash them all at once for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
"Okay, you can name any price you want." Brother Li happily took the enamel bowl.
Li Changle put shrimps and rice noodles into the pot, and after they boiled, he put clams and small pond vegetables into the pot and boiled them, then started to serve the dishes.
Brother Li and Chen Yongwei jumped onto the deck, "We can smell the fragrance while we're still over there!"
"How could it not be fresh? Three swimming crabs, prawns, and clams. They are all good stuff."
Li Changle took the enamel bowl as big as his head from Big Brother Li, filled it up and handed it to the three people respectively, "I guarantee it will be so fresh that it will make your eyebrows drop."
Chen Yongwei picked up the noodles, blew on them a few times, stuffed them into his mouth, and nodded as he ate. "It's delicious, much more delicious than the seafood noodles in town. Chef Li's cooking skills are pretty good."
Brother Li also thought it was delicious. "I have made an agreement with Ah Le that he will be responsible for cooking from now on, and we will do the work of washing pots and dishes and cleaning the deck."
"That's convenient. As long as there are hot meals to eat, we will take care of all these tasks." Brother Li felt that he was not afraid of working, but he was afraid of not having meals that he liked.
Feeling full, lazy and hungry, after finishing a bowl of seafood noodles, the four of them sat lazily on the deck, not wanting to move at all.
In the end, it was Brother Li who took action first. He cleaned the pots and bowls, put the clay stove and bowls and chopsticks in a wooden box in the cabin, and came out to shout at the three men to work.
"Ah Le, I'll go around the left side of Chuiyuan Island later, and you guys go around the right side, then go around the front and go around to Zhushan. We'll meet in the Yantoushan Sea."
"Okay! I'll go over and start the fishing boat first."
Li Changle jumped onto the Rising Sun, picked up the crank to start the fishing boat. A "da da da" sound was heard, a puff of black smoke came out of the diesel engine, and the sea water on both sides of the ship surged.
Brother Li and Chen Yongwei rushed to lower the trawl into the water, jumped onto the Rising Sun to lower the trawl, and then jumped back nimbly.
"Brother, go get some sleep. I'll call you to close the net later."
"No, you go to sleep, I'll drive."
"Don't worry, big brother has taught me several times." Chen Yongwei grabbed the driving seat, released the accelerator, and drove the fishing boat forward.
Li Changle was enjoying his leisure time. He lay on the deck, shielding himself from the sun with a straw hat, and soon fell asleep.
The fishing boat circled Chuiyuan Island and arrived at Zhushan. Li Changle woke up, sat up and looked around, but did not see Brother Li and his group's fishing boat.
He took out two cigarettes and lit them up, then walked to the driver's seat and handed one to Chen Yongwei, "Brother, they haven't come yet?"
"They went around that way. Let's meet them at Yantou Mountain."
"I'll drive it. You take a nap."
"Row."
Chen Yongwei gave up the driving seat, Li Changle took over the helm, turned the fishing boat around and drove towards Yantou Mountain. Halfway there, he saw Brother Li standing at the bow and waving at him.
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