1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

Chapter 253 Making fish meal and mullet roe

 After the fishing, Li Duoyu sailed the boat back to the fishing raft, hung the sticky net on the bamboo pole, arranged it and dried it.

 Then, I gave some of the sea fish to my uncle Chen Dongqing, mainly some beef tongue fish, swimming crabs and sea shrimps.

Seeing that Li Duoyu finally responded generously, Chen Dongqing said with a look of relief: "That's enough. I don't need to give so much. I won't be able to finish it. I don't have a refrigerator at home, and it might be broken tomorrow."

Li Duoyu said with a smile: "I remember that you live in the same community as Director Zhang. I haven't even thanked him properly for the oysters. Half of it will be given to you, and you can bring the remaining half to him for me."

Chen Dongqing's face was very dark, and he knew that this **** was not so kind. He was so moved at that moment.

 Chen Dongqing took two bags of seafood, sighed, and drove the tin boat back to the county town.

As if he knew Li Duoyu was leaving, Erbai Wu made a "woo woo" sound.

Li Duoyu touched its dog's head and said with a smile: "I don't have much free time these days. After the Chinese New Year, I will find you a partner."

  “Wow~”

With the sound of "rumbling", the sampan boat loaded with fish sailed back to the dock of Dandan Island.

 The ship has just docked.

The fishmonger, Mr. Mi, came around with a smile on his face: "Why do you have time to go fishing today? You also caught so many mullets. Do you have any eggs in this batch? If so, I will give you one pound and five." I’ll give it to you.”

Li Duoyu smiled: "There are eggs, but I won't sell the aconite. I can give you some crabs and shrimps."

Old man Mi was surprised and said: "There are so many fish, so many aconite, if you don't want to sell them, what are you going to do with them? No one wants these dried fish."

 “Use it to make feed and feed it to eels.”

 Old man Mi couldn't stand it anymore and couldn't help but said: "It's too extravagant to use the aconite with eggs as feed. By the way, your eel factory has invested tens of thousands of dollars so far."

Li Duoyu did not tell Uncle Mi the specific investment amount, but changed the subject and said: "Uncle Mi, next, if you want to buy some trash fish, if you have time, you can help me buy some too."

 “It’s a small thing, no problem.”

Old man Mi smiled and said: "If your eels are a big seller in the future, remember to leave some goods for me."

“They are all from the same village, I will definitely keep them for you.”

 “That’s pretty much it.”

Li Duoyu sold the crabs and shrimps he caught to the fishmonger Mi LaoTou and made about eight yuan.

 Next.

Li Duoyu borrowed a two-wheeled cart from Lao Jin, a second-hand fishing gear store, and took the mullet to the eel factory.

The second brother and sister-in-law who worked in the eel factory, as well as Chen Wenchao, hurried over to help after seeing Li Duoyu hauling so many sea fish.

 The four of them worked together and moved more than 400 kilograms of mullet in just two trips.

Looking at the five large baskets of mullet fish in front of him, Li Yaoguo couldn't help but ask: "Fourth brother, you have so many fish, are you ready to make fish meal?"

 “That’s right, we’re ready to make fish meal.”

 Li Duoyu said politely to his second sister-in-law Zhu Xiuhua: "Second sister-in-law, please do me one thing first."

 “I’m working for you now, so you don’t have to be so polite.”

Li Duoyu smiled. In the past, the second sister-in-law would have said that she wanted more money, but now that she is receiving his salary, it would be difficult to say so.

Li Duoyu picked up a fish knife, performed a "laparotomy" on a still jumping mullet, and then took out the eggs.

"Wait a minute, kill all these fish, take out the eggs inside, and then use tweezers to squeeze out all the blood on the eggs."

The second sister-in-law nodded: "Okay, this is simple. If you want to remove the scales of the fish, I will kill it for you."

 Li Duoyu shook his head.

"No, just take the fish eggs and squeeze out the blood."

Zhu Xiuhua nodded.

Li Duoyu then said to his second brother: "After you finish what you are doing, go to the supply and marketing cooperative and buy thirty kilograms of salt."

 “Just buy salt, right?”

"Um."

 Actually, the production process of mullet roe is relatively simple.

 The first step is to squeeze out the blood water. After squeezing out the blood, tie the top egg opening with cotton thread, and that’s it.

 The second one is salting.

 After squeezing out the blood, wrap the fish eggs in a layer of coarse salt.

 The third step is extrusion and dehydration.

 After salting, the fish eggs are usually pressed on a wooden board because there is no wooden board specially used to press the mullet roe.

Li Duoyu directly used local materials, placed the fish eggs on a dustpan, used some small dustpan nesting dolls to put them on, and then put a few bricks on top, which can also achieve the effect of squeezing and dehydration.

 Normally, it takes about a day to squeeze out the water in the fish eggs, and then wash the fish eggs with salt.

 Just sunbathe for a few months in the end.

Of course, if you want to save time, you can also bake it in the baking room.

On the side, Chen Wenchao, who had not been assigned any work from beginning to end, frowned, and what made him most depressed was.

 In the past, Brother Yu would call him every time he went out to sea to fish, but today he didn’t call him.

 This made him a little confused.

　　 couldn't help but think back on what he had done these days, but there was nothing he felt was inappropriate.

Chen Wenchao glanced at Zhu Xiuhua who was squeezing the blood. His hand speed was much faster than his. He only processed one fish egg.

Zhu Xiuhua has already dealt with two cases. Could it be that this woman is too capable? In comparison, it seems that he is fishing in troubled waters.

 The sudden thought made Chen Wenchao suddenly feel a sense of crisis. He knew very well that who gave him the ability to marry a wife and build a house.

Could it be that Brother Yu thought he was old-fashioned? Chen Wenchao, who was not assigned to the work content, hurriedly said: "Brother Yu, you must catch a lot of fish to make fish meal. How about going out to sea to catch more fish these days? "

Li Duoyu shook his head and smiled: "Don't worry, I have asked Uncle Mi to buy it for me. You were tired enough some time ago. Take a good rest these days and spend more time with your family."

 After hearing this, Chen Wenchue became uneasy. He didn't know what he did wrong, but Brother Yu didn't say it clearly, and he didn't dare to ask.

Looking at Zhu Xiuhua who was working hard, Chen Wenchao suddenly felt a sense of crisis. All he can do now is work harder than before, otherwise he will be compared.

Li Duoyu originally thought that the second sister-in-law was stronger and would pierce the membrane surrounding the fish eggs when squeezing out the blood water. However, she did not expect that when she started doing needlework, she was not inferior to Zhou Xiaoying at all.

Leaving aside his body shape, he is really an all-around player. At this moment, Li Duoyu finally understood the reason why her second brother had been tortured thousands of times by her in the previous life, but he never left her.

 After making arrangements for the mullet roe, Li Duoyu started making fish meal.

 In previous lives, there was a complete set of assembly line equipment for making fish meal, but in this era, Li Duoyu could only use local methods.

Li Duoyu took a kitchen knife for chopping bones, cut the mullet into pieces, and stuffed it into a cloth bag.

Seeing Brother Yu starting to cut the fish, Chen Wenchao also brought a meat-chopping knife over: "Brother Yu, just let me cut it. After cutting it, can you put it all in the bag?"

 “That’s right.”

Li Duoyu nodded and saw Chen Wenchao cutting fish into pieces, so he lit the stove and boiled a pot of water.

 The first step in making fishmeal.

 It means to steam the fish.

 The second step is similar to that of mullet roe. You also need to press the cloth bag filled with fish meat with a heavy object to squeeze out the excess fish oil and blood inside.

 It takes about a day or two to press, then pour the fish residue in the bag onto a dustpan, and then pull it to the drying room to dry the remaining moisture.

Finally, put the dried fish meat, fish scales, and fish bones into a stone mortar and mash them with a wooden pestle.

 Dry again.

 Then use the flour grinding machine to grind the fish meat and fish bones into powder.

Li Duoyu taught his second sister-in-law how to make mullet roe, but he taught Chen Wenchao how to make fish meal.

 Actually, Li Duoyu is still a little uneasy about his second sister-in-law and feels that she is not such a peaceful person.

 So I didn’t plan to teach her all the processes of eel farming, for fear that she would sell the entire eel farming technology to others in a blink of an eye.

As for simple things like mullet roe, Li Duoyu doesn’t care. After all, the market share of this thing is small. Even if others can make it, they may not be able to find a market.

 (End of this chapter)