Chapter 311 The Ocean is as Small as the Long Pond

Chapter 311 The Ocean is as Small as the Long Pond

Chapter 311 The Ocean is as Small as Changtang
When Li Changle and his companions looked at the big red fish that jumped out of the bag and onto the deck, their expressions of surprise were no less than the ones they had seen when they saw the killer whale whipping the manta ray just now.

The scientific name of red snapper is Pagrotis, and some people call it Ghaji fish. This fish has very few bones, and the meat is firm and elastic, commonly known as "garlic meat". There is also a saying among the people that "the head of Ghaji fish, the house of horse mackerel, and the belly and mouth of hairtail fish are like lips".

There are two types of true sea bream, one is red and called red sea bream, the other is black and called black sea bream. The red true sea bream is a common fish at banquets because of its beautiful shape and auspicious color.

Brother Li also stretched his neck to look up at the deck, then ran out happily and said to the others, "Why are you just standing there? Hurry up and catch the fish and deflate it! If it's dead, the price will be doubled!"

"Got it!" Father Li waved at him cheerfully, "Hurry up and go to the wheelhouse to steer the ship. Let's clean up here and start casting the nets."

"Brother, there are so many good stuff, let's go around this area again." Li Changle said to him hurriedly.

"Hey hey!" Brother Li ran back happily, shouting, "I'm rich, I'm rich!"

"Work! Work!" Brother Li picked up a red snapper weighing five or six pounds and ran briskly to deflate it.

Feed as many as you can. If not, send them to the ship's hold and freeze them. Sell them for a few dollars per pound. There should be no problem.

Li Changle turned his head to look at the sea in the distance. Seeing the manta ray flying above the sea getting farther and farther away, he felt a little disappointed.

The killer whales' ears are so sensitive that they should be able to hear their voices. But they didn't swim towards them but swam farther and farther away. It seemed that they were not the killer whale brothers they recognized.

Forget it, we will meet again someday if we are destined to do so, Li Changle thought so, and took Chen Yongwei and others to lower the trawl net into the water, and concentrated on working.

In addition to the two or three hundred true sea breams at the mouth of the net, there are also black sea bream, black hair fish, oil grouper, grouper, and tiger grouper.

What was poured out later were eels, shrimps, crabs, hairtail, squid, water bream, mackerel, sea bass and other miscellaneous fish.

There were eleven baskets of red snappers, the largest ten or so weighed about eight or nine pounds, and the smaller ones weighed two or three pounds. There were two baskets of black snappers, and the black hairtail and other groupers were sorted into five baskets in total.

With over a thousand kilograms of good goods, the price of red sea bream is better than that of black sea bream. It should be no problem to sell it at a little more than one dollar per kilogram. The price of grouper is even better. With over a thousand kilograms of good goods, you can make a lot of money.

Li Changle and the others were so happy that they didn't feel tired even after working for a long time with their bodies bent.

Looking at the hawk claw shrimps, his stomach started to growl. He grabbed a few handfuls of small hawk claw shrimps and put them in a bucket. He handed it to Father Li and said:

"Dad, there are some small pond vegetables. I will cook some rice and noodles for you this morning."

"Hey!" Father Li happily walked towards the kitchen carrying a bucket of water.

The four of them delivered all the good stuff into the cabin, and then began to clean up the eels that were twisting their bodies and wriggling everywhere, and the crabs that were running around with their legs.

The big eels were put into the alive tank, while the small eels were killed and put into the bamboo basket. Before the sorting was finished, Father Li had already cooked the rice and flour.

"Come and eat quickly. It won't taste good if it clumps together." Father Li brought enamel bowls filled with rice and flour to the deck. Everyone picked up the bowls and ate the rice and flour in big mouthfuls, with beads of sweat running down their necks.

He ate a full bowl of rice and flour, put the bowl away and continued to work.

It took more than half an hour to put all the fish into the warehouse and then to clean the deck with water. At this time, a whistle sounded from far away.

Li Changle looked up and saw two iron boats coming towards them.

After he saw the people on the boat clearly, he suddenly felt that the ocean had become as small as the long pond in the village. He met two groups of familiar people in just two days.

Chen Yongwei gave him a slight turn and said, "Brother, it's the Zhou brothers!"

"I see it!" Li Changle, who was driving the fishing boat, passed by the Dongsheng. He and Boss Zhou nodded to each other and watched their boat sail to the southeast.

After Boss Zhou passed by, Zhou Achang, who was following behind him, looked at Li Changle with a gloomy look and nodded at him a few times, "How dare you steal my business, you bastard!"

Zhou Achang's voice was not very loud, so Li Changle could not hear it clearly, but he knew from his expression that it was not a good thing, so he raised his middle finger at him and said, "You monkey, come over here if you have the guts!"

Zhou Achang looked at the fishing boat in front of him and raised his middle finger to Li Changle, "Grandson, just wait for me!"

Li Changle and Chen Yongwei raised their middle fingers at him at the same time, watching Zhou Achang's gloomy face getting farther and farther away.

"Brother, this bastard must be angry that we bought the fishing boat first!"

"Correct!"

Brother Li looked at Li Changle worriedly, "Ah Le, what does this kid from the Zhou family mean?"

"You hate us for buying the boat first?"

"Why? They want to buy this boat too?"

"Yes!" Li Changle said, "Uncle Zhang said that the Zhou family also wanted to buy this boat at that time, so they found Zhao Er's wife and gave her fifteen thousand yuan to transfer the contract to his family.

Zhao Er's wife disagreed, and the Zhou brothers said some unpleasant things. Aunt Zhang was afraid that he would ruin the reputation of the shipyard, so she said a few words to him in person.

Uncle Zhang felt that they had pushed the price too low and wanted to take over our big ship business, so he went to Zhao Er's wife to return the deposit at the original price and sold the ship to us. After Awei and I paid the money and ran into their brothers at the intersection, Zhou Achang hated us. Boss Zhou is not a good person either, he just pretends better than Zhou Achang! "

"If he was kind, he wouldn't have held back half of the deposit from the Zhao family's widowed mother!" Li Erge said angrily, "They didn't like the price he offered and refused to sell it to them, so they came to trouble us. Do we brothers think they are easy to bully?"

"Second brother, our ship is bigger than theirs now. We are not afraid of them even if we fight them." Chen Yongwei said angrily.

"We don't cause trouble, but we're not afraid of it!" Father Li stood behind the three men without knowing when. "Be careful next time. It's easy to dodge an open attack, but it's hard to guard against an arrow from the dark. Especially at night, beware of their mischief."

I just told the boss last night that it's really hard to have a boat out to sea without someone to look after it. Good things don't work but bad things do. Someone was jealous and looking for trouble early this morning.

"Remember!" Brother Li comforted him, "Don't worry, Dad. We will take turns on duty at night. Nothing will happen."

Chen Yongwei smiled and comforted Father Li, "Uncle Tang, we are not even afraid of the robbers who robbed the boat, so why should we be afraid of them!"

Father Li patted him on the shoulder and said, "Uncle Tang, you are not afraid. We should be careful when we go out. Only by being careful can we be safe!"

"I know!"

Everyone comforted him a few more words, sat down to rest for a while, and prepared to set up the second net. After the net bag was pulled up, everyone was a little disappointed.

I saw that the net bag was not bulging at all, and the catch was obviously less than the ones caught in yesterday's nets and this morning's net.

Li Changle laughed and said, "Why are you all so angry? How can every net burst? It's worse than the previous ones, some of them are still several hundred kilograms heavier."

"Ale is right. We were so happy when we caught hundreds of kilograms of fish!"

"Uncle Tang, you take a rest. I'll go get out of the net!" Chen Yongwei trotted towards the bottom of the net, and Li Changle followed him.

"Brother, we will come here often to do homework in the future, so you can give this piece a name!"

Li Changle looked at the two sail-like reefs in the distance and said, "How about calling it Sail Island? Set sail!"

Chen Yongwei smiled and nodded, "If you say yes, then yes!"

Li Changle smiled and said, "After we pick up the fish, we'll put the longline down, take a break, and then go diving to catch the catch."

Chen Yongwei untied the knot, and mackerel, yellow croaker, golden threadfish, sea bass, eel, and some shrimps, crabs and miscellaneous fish poured out of the net bag and onto the deck.

The group also saw two giant mackerels about one meter long. Li Changle picked up a wooden stick and hit them on the head. "It's not that bad. This giant mackerel can be sold for a hundred dollars."

Chen Yongwei caught a big blue crab. "There are quite a few big ones here. This one weighs at least two kilograms and is full of roe. It's worth four or five yuan."

"It's mainly because the net we used was so good." Brother Li smiled and picked up a mackerel to drain its blood.

"Ouch!" Wang Xincheng cried out in pain. Several people turned their heads and saw a large sea eel biting his heel, with its serrated teeth holding on tightly and refusing to let go.

Li Changle hurried forward and used pliers to help pry open the eel's mouth. The big eel let go of Acheng's heel and rushed towards Li Changle's feet. Chen Yongwei was quick-eyed and quick-handed, and hit the eel on the head with a stick, flattening the eel's head.

Father Li took out iodine and cotton swabs and said, "Acheng, take off your shoes quickly and see if there is any bleeding."

"Oh!" Wang Xincheng took off his rain boots. Several people saw blood oozing from his heels and several holes were bitten on his rain boots.

Father Li dipped iodine in water and smeared his heel several times. He saw four or five bloody teeth marks on his heel from the bite of the eel. "This thing will not let go. Fortunately, I was wearing rain boots, otherwise it would have bitten off a piece of my flesh."

"Go put on your yellow rubber shoes to prevent your rain boots from being stuffy and causing inflammation in your wound." Li Changle thought about it and said, "You go cook, we can do it here."

Wang Xincheng hurriedly said, "It's okay, Uncle Le. It's just a few blood marks. It will be gone in a while."

"Go ahead!" Father Li handed him the iodine and cotton swabs. "There aren't many fish in this net. We'll finish sorting them in a little while."

"Thank you, Grandpa, and thank you, Uncle Le!" Wang Xincheng said gratefully.

"This kid, we are all relatives, why are we so polite?"

After Wang Xincheng left, the four began to sort the fish. Li Changle grabbed a golden thread fish and smiled at them, "Yes, there is a new species of mullet."

"This fish tastes good. Fry a few and make stew with vegetables and soup at noon." Father Li grabbed a few and walked towards the kitchen.

The golden thread fish is also called redwood fish or red three in some places. It has bright body color with pink and 6 golden parallel longitudinal bands on the sides of the body. The tail fin is forked, and the end of the upper lobe is extended into a thread, and the color is also extremely beautiful.

The meat of golden thread fish is tender. It can be fried until golden brown and then added with tofu or other side dishes to make soup. The fish soup is milky white and extremely sweet and delicious. It also tastes good when steamed.

It has the functions of warming the middle and replenishing qi, warming the stomach, and moisturizing the skin. It is suitable for people with weak constitution, indigestion, hyperlipidemia, and weak spleen and stomach. However, it is not suitable for people with skin allergies or inflammation.

(End of this chapter)